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What would be the torque required to spin the slowest gear 1/3 rotation per day? Let's assume the same radius: 2cm.



I would say you could ballpark it as something north of 10^100 Nm or ft-lb

If you want to make these figures a little more reasonable, we could try to spin the slow gear only once in 100 years, in which case you can take about 5 whole powers of 10 off these numbers




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