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Thanks for all the helpful replies guys. I'm very grateful for the interest. I think Paul, JasonB and gbritnell all addressed the problem I was having, that of scaling the gears so that the approximate ratios and spacings were met, but the gears also looked 'sensible'. It seems that the...

Probably a simple question but what is the accepted way of scaling a gear train from a prototype? Obviously he centre-to-centre distance (and hence the pitch circle diameters) scale according to the scale factor but what about the number of teeth. How do you go about selecting the number of...