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Gearios

 The cereal for budding engineers
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HEY KIDS! New Gearios will allow you to make the machines of your dreams! Winch the cat off the floor, while you eat your breakfast... Make a pump that will pump milk up a straw and squirt it into your mouth... amaze your Mum.

New Gearios are just like Cheerios but they have toothed cogs in varying sizes to allow you to make a limited slip differential for your RC car.

When you get tired of playing with them, just brush off the cat hair, add milk and eat.

—UnaBubba, Sep 29 2005
Gearios ~bz [bristolz, Sep 30 2005, last modified Oct 29 2005]

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       This could get meshy.   

       Mum, I poured milk on my cereal but it won't synchro!
—UnaBubba, Sep 29 2005
   

       with 250% of the RDA of Iron.
—neilp, Sep 29 2005
   

       Just like little cogs, only crunchy!
—UnaBubba, Sep 29 2005
   

       KRUSTY O's "Free Inside! One Jagged Metal Krusty-O!"
—schmendrick, Sep 29 2005
   

       Kewl! Glad to see you're back on form, good buddy.
—DrCurry, Sep 29 2005
   

       <Mom to UB> Try skim milk as a friction modifier.
—RayfordSteele, Sep 29 2005
   

       The cereal could hoist the milk to the top and pour it on itself.
—Shz, Sep 29 2005
   

       //Simple gear-ratio play sets are doable. RC car LSD is not//   

       This is the HB, where anything that stays within the laws of thermodynamics and dosen't require magic is possible if you throw enough time and money at it.   

       With well-formed crown gears and some whipped cream I could turn you out a Ferguson torque sensing differential, if you want.   

       On form, [DC]? D'ya think? I just counted my output and I've posted 15 ideas this week. Surprised myself.
—UnaBubba, Sep 30 2005
   

       All that pent-up something or other.
—DrCurry, Sep 30 2005
   

       Yay for [bz].
"And all that whining...I do wish you'd stop eating those straight cut Gearios."		   

       I can see working gears easily being made with cookies of the sort that are pressed in to molds. "Teddy Grahams" like I had the other day seem to hold a lot of detail and shape.   

       Cereal might be tougher as most of it seems to be puffy and slightly irregular. I assume Cheerios puff and are at least partially cooked by the pressure applied during an extrusion process that creates their shape.
—half, Sep 30 2005
   

       There's some helicals in there...
—bristolz, Sep 30 2005
   

       Mom, I had a perpetual motion machine right here and Stevie ate it! Ma-am!
—theircompetitor, Sep 30 2005
   

       hey zeus! those are some mighty fine gears me dear!
—schmendrick, Sep 30 2005
   

       HEY KIDS! This month only... 2 only worm spline gears and two outsize worm drive bevel gears in every packet!
—UnaBubba, Sep 30 2005
   

       BTW, thanks [bris]. Your illo is extraordinary, as usual.
—UnaBubba, Oct 01 2005
   

       Cereal, fun, eat. Yay!
—blissmiss, Oct 01 2005
   

       Actually, blatant magic is fine, just as long as you don't violate the 2nd law.
—RayfordSteele, Feb 23 2009
   
      
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