How about all the way over and back around and all the way over again !!
Ok guy's here it goes........ First off they would have to reverse engineer the gear + make an engineered drawing. That means i would be able to take it to any manufacturer and have the gear made. Cost..... $2,000.oo . But after talking to them and explaining what it is for and showing them the R.C. catalog and pictures of the SORCERER dragbike they knocked the reversed engineering drawing to $1,500.oo.
After that there's the process of finding out exactly what material the gear is made out of. 2 way's of going about that. One is sending it off to a lab and doing all of the tests = $ 2,000.oo Or choosing a high grade material and running with it and saving $ 2,000.oo Then having the material, it must be sent out to be broached and bored. Then they will cut the gear teeth, grind and polish. Last, the gear will have to be heat treated.
All in all this venture will not be cheap. Some major time will have to be invested to figure out what the exact price per piece would end up being. Some special tooling would have to be made to manufacture the gears which would be included in the cost ,which would be owned by the customer. That said the customer could take the drawing and the tooling to any gear manufacture and have the gears made. I was taken through the shops and observed all kinds of special machines in operation making some really cool pieces for the military and Boeing aerospace . So there ya go, now to figure out if it's worth the time and $$$$$$ to invest in this and how many people out in the cycle world would need this gear and the timing shaft.
I was just thinking......Can you imagine what the cost factor would be to have all of the pieces made for the R.C.angle drive setup ? I can't even imagine what the larger gear that's in the housing with the special bearing would even cost !
I guess a lot of you guy's have forgotten all of the time that i spent researching in order to have some gears made up for the R.C. Engineering gear drive. It is definitely not cheap to startup the manufacturing of the special gear as you can read above. If it was cheap or a off the shelf piece, everyone would have no problem getting a replacement. Yea a lot of guys think that the seller should sell his parts for cheap but in the rare high performance parts area, if you want really it bad before anyone else gets it you got to step up to the plate. I agree some guys are way over the top on the prices of some parts. Other than the gear problem is the rotation of the distributor or the magneto to be used in the angle drive, they have to be set in a reverse rotation ( counter clockwise ). No one makes a distributor setup for that in the VW bottom drive for the R.C. Engineering setup. Only the magnetos that are available can be setup to run in a reverse rotation.
So there you go. Sometimes it all boils down to what someone is willing to pay and what the seller is willing to accept for the part. I hope everyone finds what they are looking for on the cheaper side.
PS. The post above on my research about the cost of having gears made was almost 5 years ago !! I imagine costs have risen since then.
