Inside the Gearbox How Washing Machines Work |
Here you can see a gear with a link attached to it. This link is just like the one attached to an old steam train wheel as the gear (along with the link) turns, it pushes another pieshaped piece of gear back and forth. This pieshaped gear engages a small gear on the inner shaft, which leads to the addition to rotating the inner shaft in alternating directions, there are other