It's not the diameter of the gear, it's the tooth ratio. A gear ten feet in diameter with 1000 teeth mated to one 5 feet in diameter with 500 teeth is exactly as accurate as a one-inch gear with 10 teeth mated to a 1/2 inch gear with 5 teeth. 360 degrees=360 degrees, diameter notwithstanding.
Yes.. but if you use gears with too fine of a tooth, they have a higher degree of stripping out and breaking teeth. Esp with a controller that will be moved very swiftly and with force. Fine tooth gears are fine for something like clocks..ect. But for an arcade controller, you want larger thicker tooth gears to be able to withstand the forces. Also... fine tooth gears will be thinner and so if they get moved arround to the left or right a hair, they may fail. The tolerances for accuracy has to be very good in the assembly that uses a fine gear system. Finer the gears.. the more resistence you will get as well. (greater friction)
And finally... finding a fine tooth geat with a hole big enough for a standard arcade pot will not be easy... even if one exists.
There are reasons why the designers used these specific gears, ratios, sizes..ect. All the testing has already been done. These were the best results.. and they have prooven themselves. The only major flaw in the design was the use of plastic gears instead of metal.. which would have kept them from becoming brittle and cracking with age. Otherwise, these yokes are amazingly designed and durrable. Some are well played and like 20+ yrs old.. and still work great.
but, if I remember right, if you die soon after getting the van, you can push to call it again. Or you can just summon it a 2nd time right after getting it, or something like that- but I'm pretty sure you could get a 2nd van with the button.
- no... thats just a section in the game where there are 2 vans in a short time of each other.
I own the standup. Played many an hour on the beast ; )
Did you know... that when the weapons van comes.. there a picture on top of the van that shows what weapon its carrying? : )