Equipment that involves transport functions of materials or for configuring for certain operations will often have rack and pinion mechanisms as part of that function: things like printers and sheet feeders/ folders/ collators, some copy machines and scanners use them in the lens transport mechanism, audio and video tape machines and disc players with automated insert/eject trays uses them to drive those trays, they're sometimes found in mechanisms to control limit/return switches and trigger counters on sliding parts of machines when a section of rack reaches and engages/ turns the pinion gear.
Precision instrument mounts use them a lot, like high end telescope and camera and measuring device tripods/stands/drives, in the lens adjustment mechanisms of microscopes...
They're everywhere; its like asking "What are some jobs that frequently work on levers or hinges.
>They're everywhere; its like asking "What are some jobs that frequently work on levers or hinges.
But do people actually have them reparied or are they just throw-away?
Depends on the unit, size, materials...and what kind of damage occurs, and to which part.
On a massive industrial machine with a rack milled into a huge casting, if a tooth breaks they aren't going to throw the whole thing away. Same for making adjustments when the pinion gear shifts or replacing one that gets damaged, or doing the work of calibrating or repairing an expensive precision device like a microscope or dial indicator/ caliper.
Valve gates or rotating features in injection molds are pretty keen on rack and pinion op. You could always become a mold mechanic plus then you'd always have easy access to nuts and bolts for your fricking machine.
fricking machines
Frick machines need reciprocating movement so they use a piston driven by a wheel instead.
you know suspiciously lot about fricking machines, friend
It's just common sense.
and experience, being fricked by one till it breaks, so you have to service it, huh?
Frick off.
I'd never use anything but proper pneumatics for getting fricked.
*KSSHHHHT*
OWW
*KSSHHHHT*
Owwwwieee
what machine does the "plap plap plap" thing
and then after 30 seconds of fricking.
*BRBRBRBRBRBRBR*
Compressor comes on and everyone has to put their hearing protection on.
Every machine needs a repairmen.
Is that a traveling gig or do you live somewhere with a high density of fricking machines?
Your mom pays me to have me on call 24/7.
You can't have an area of fricking machines becomes they could just frick each other then.
This. Most of them are like choo choo trains.
T. Guy who likes to watch my wife get plowed by a machine while abusing her various other orifices.
Be careful, I got a cheap chinese made fricking machine without good safeties the big wiener split my wife right down the middle
Lol this gave me visions of attaching a handsaw to a frick machine and then selling it to some clueless boomer as a power saw.
The PrepHole virgin brigade showed up right on time.
car steering repair
Sounds like a very niche repair already performed by less specialized mechanics.
Equipment that involves transport functions of materials or for configuring for certain operations will often have rack and pinion mechanisms as part of that function: things like printers and sheet feeders/ folders/ collators, some copy machines and scanners use them in the lens transport mechanism, audio and video tape machines and disc players with automated insert/eject trays uses them to drive those trays, they're sometimes found in mechanisms to control limit/return switches and trigger counters on sliding parts of machines when a section of rack reaches and engages/ turns the pinion gear.
Precision instrument mounts use them a lot, like high end telescope and camera and measuring device tripods/stands/drives, in the lens adjustment mechanisms of microscopes...
They're everywhere; its like asking "What are some jobs that frequently work on levers or hinges.
>They're everywhere; its like asking "What are some jobs that frequently work on levers or hinges.
But do people actually have them reparied or are they just throw-away?
Depends on the unit, size, materials...and what kind of damage occurs, and to which part.
On a massive industrial machine with a rack milled into a huge casting, if a tooth breaks they aren't going to throw the whole thing away. Same for making adjustments when the pinion gear shifts or replacing one that gets damaged, or doing the work of calibrating or repairing an expensive precision device like a microscope or dial indicator/ caliper.
Am i banned here too
Valve gates or rotating features in injection molds are pretty keen on rack and pinion op. You could always become a mold mechanic plus then you'd always have easy access to nuts and bolts for your fricking machine.