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How does gear ratio use function?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

gear ratio can speed up a device or slow it down. The gears that make up the gear ratio can be used to go from small to bigger thru a series of gears and slow the drive down , say 30 to 1. Or start off with large gears going smaller and speed up the drive say 1 to 30.

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