I like the tractor with the crane!

Clearly gearing up for something important

How much do you know about the Gear Set, Morty?

Back when gears were new enough to get their own set

... Match? Oh wait, I think I have something wrong...

Nice old set! I was just thinking about these after I saw the old gears used as a tractor wheel in the Iron Builder.

I so wanted this when I was a kid. But then, Technic happened; and it was much better!

It's interesting these actively used the underside tubes of bricks to fix a cross axle in place.

It appears the diameter changed later on, because modern day bricks no longer can do this.

@Atuin said:
"It's interesting these actively used the underside tubes of bricks to fix a cross axle in place.
"
It's a bushing that fits inbetween four studs: https://img.bricklink.com/P/5/x148.jpg, see also lower left corner here: http://belay.peeron.com/scans/810-3/2/

At that time you didn't have to have the gears on the same height to transmit rotation at 90°: http://peeron.com/scans/810-3/14/

I think I liked the windmill best.

Gear set? With, like, 2 gears?

Technic before Technic! Never had this stuff myself, but have played a lot with it when visiting family, loved those big gears. And 10 gears in a 114 piece set.....does any modern day Technic set even come close to that? Okay, 4 of those were just used as wheels (those tires were weird.....), but still...

Didn't realise there were quite a few 'Gear' sets before the advent of Technic proper. Only ever had 802-1 before entering my dark age but even that spawned plenty of windmills and roundabouts!

@Arnoldos said:
"Gear set? With, like, 2 gears?"

10 according to the inventory. Not that bad!

This really grinds my… I am being told I cannot finish this joke

@tedgarb said:
"This really grinds my… I am being told I cannot finish this joke"

I am apawled at this censorship.

With the introduction of splat gears in 2019, we are finally able to compete with this again!

Just ignore technic for a bit. That's... different.

I thought "gear" sets were ineligible, Huwbot!

@chefkaspa said:
" @Atuin said:
"It's interesting these actively used the underside tubes of bricks to fix a cross axle in place.
"
It's a bushing that fits inbetween four studs: https://img.bricklink.com/P/5/x148.jpg, see also lower left corner here: http://belay.peeron.com/scans/810-3/2/

At that time you didn't have to have the gears on the same height to transmit rotation at 90°: http://peeron.com/scans/810-3/14/

I think I liked the windmill best."

No, missed the point.

I have one of these, and the tubes ARE different to modern ones. Modern ones can accept an axle, but it falls out instantly. The old ones can actually clutch to those axles.

Those hole-having bricks are long overdue for a reissue. That's some utility right there, man.

What is that vehicle in the bottom right supposed to be and what is it supposed to be doing? Like a weird grabby spinny arm?

@Atuin:
If you're referring to the model in the upper right, that design would work with any modern 2x2 brick as well. Gravity would keep the part from falling off. Now, the function might not work as well as intended, since any slippage would result in the...thing...with the other things...and the thing from, you know, rotating as intended. But it'd stay where it's placed.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @tedgarb said:
"This really grinds my… I am being told I cannot finish this joke"

I am apawled at this censorship."

Stop it right now, or it's the rack for both of you!

@Crux:
Too many components involved. You have the outer shell, the inner shell, and several red rubber sleeves that have to be inserted between them. So there's also the assembly process, which they have largely steered away from in the last decade.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Atuin:
If you're referring to the model in the upper right, that design would work with any modern 2x2 brick as well. Gravity would keep the part from falling off. Now, the function might not work as well as intended, since any slippage would result in the...thing...with the other things...and the thing from, you know, rotating as intended. But it'd stay where it's placed.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @tedgarb said:
"This really grinds my… I am being told I cannot finish this joke"

I am apawled at this censorship."

Stop it right now, or it's the rack for both of you!

@Crux:
Too many components involved. You have the over-shell, the undershell, and several red rubber sleeves that have to be inserted between them. So there's also the assembly process, which they have largely steered away from in the last decade."

The solution seems simple: have us assemble the brick while we assemble the set. All it'll take is what, eight to ten additional pages in the manual? Worth it.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Atuin :
If you're referring to the model in the upper right, that design would work with any modern 2x2 brick as well. Gravity would keep the part from falling off. Now, the function might not work as well as intended, since any slippage would result in the...thing...with the other things...and the thing from, you know, rotating as intended. But it'd stay where it's placed.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @tedgarb said:
"This really grinds my… I am being told I cannot finish this joke"

I am apawled at this censorship."

Stop it right now, or it's the rack for both of you!

@Crux :
Too many components involved. You have the outer shell, the inner shell, and several red rubber sleeves that have to be inserted between them. So there's also the assembly process, which they have largely steered away from in the last decade."

Still not right.

There IS ACTUAL clutch power in the axle/brick combo in those old sets.

No gravity, adapters or whatever needed. You can shake it heavily and it stays on.

Never had the set (I would have been about 3 when it came out); but saw parts years later in a friend-of-mine's collection. The grey bricks w/the holes (always was amazed by the fact it could split), the axels (white ones, as opposed to the black ones we got with Technic sets), and the gears (which is funny, we now have modern near-equivalence with parts like: 35442, 35443, and 35446)...those tires look eerily like one that Technics had as well...:)

Good luck with getting the red gears out of the tyres without destroying them. Included are 2 very rare metal 3 long axle pins, which were rare as immediately lost, before they had a chance to appear in any of the photos. The bushes were interesting as slit to trap thread with axle so could wrap the thread around them, although this made them a bit fragile and lose.

@Arnoldos said:
"Gear set? With, like, 2 gears?"
The hubs of the larger wheels are actually red gears, pressed into the back of the tyres.