Summary

In this chapter, you learned about how to use gears. You also learned about the different types of gears that are available in the market, along with their advantages, disadvantages, and practical applications. To understand the difference between the gear up and gear down mechanisms, you performed two activities and compared some critical parameters such as time taken and distance traveled for a specific number of motor rotations. To understand the importance of high torque in certain conditions, such as going up a ramp, you tried to crack the challenges provided and understood the impact of the gear down mechanism in achieving high torque.

In the next chapter, you will be building an amazing forklift that will be able to lift the load from one place to another, all by itself. A forklift is widely used in warehouses and industries to make human work easy. The forklift will be made with the application of simple machines and a gear mechanism.