Iron gear wheel

Iron gear wheel

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Recipe
0.5 + 2 → 1
Total raw
0.5 + 2
Stack size	100
Rocket capacity	1000 (10 stacks)
Prototype type	item
Internal name	iron-gear-wheel
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The iron gear wheel is an intermediate product crafted from two iron plates. It is very important for many basic and advanced recipes, including all levels of belts, the basic inserter and assembler, and raw resource extraction equipment such as the electric mining drill; it is also used in a number of other miscellaneous areas, such as military equipment (including turrets), oil processing, power, and drones.

Aside from practical items, it is also directly involved in the first tier of science pack, as well as second and fourth tiers of science pack (as a component for the basic inserter and engine units, respectively). Gear production is therefore relatively important to continued production.

As gear production requires a sizeable amount of iron, it requires less space to transport the finished product. In some circumstances it may be worth considering transporting the gears, which could save space on infrastructure. Alternatively as they can be assembled from iron in a single step, if a sufficient supply of iron plates is available in the area, making the gears near where they will be used could reduce the number of types of items being transported there.

History

• 0.10.0:
  • Changed stack sizes of items to be 10 based, so it fits the inserter/requester count values.

• 0.7.1:
  • Stack size increased from 64 to 128

• 0.1.0:
  • Introduced