In this thesis we disassembled and analyzed the gearbox of an old BCS mower with the aim of deepening our understanding of its operation and gaining insight into the thought process of the engineers who designed it.
We first examined the gear-shifting mechanism and the working of the differential, and then delved into the gear transmission. Using manual measurements and calculations, we determined the parameters of the gears, which we verified with our own gear profile drawing program written in Python. Finally, we created a CAD model of the gearbox and simulated its operation.
We found that the gearbox is designed in a simple manner, operating on the principle of a sliding pin, and that the gear transmission uses only involute spur gears.
Additionally, we discovered that most gears have no profile shift, or that the paired gears have identical but opposite profile shifts. We were unable to determine the exact shift value only for one of the gears. The center distances of the gear pairs were not standard values but were still mostly simple.
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