Why similar materials for worm and worm wheel? In worm gear always governs the design. Justify.

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Worm and worm wheel is basically used for transmission of high gear ratios. The worm and worm wheel is a pair wheel the physical drives has high contact i.e the area during the drive is very high. High area of contact means there is high amount of friction created, high …

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