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You said very clearly that the paper trick is tried and true and it doesn’t matter what the pitch is. I backed out of my initial black-and-white stance against using the paper method and admitted it’s not that bad with Mod1 or 32 pitch. But the pitch does matter. My advise is to forget about...

It does make a difference when the mesh ends up being looser than it could be. A piece of paper between the gears produces more gap than a backlash you can just feel. And it does matter what pitch the gears are since the tolerance for error becomes smaller with the gears. You can get away with...

One millimeter is 10–20 sheets of ”common paper”. I know the scale is small but so are the teeth on the gears. I’ll give it to the paper method that the mesh is never too tight so the worst thing that can happen is premature wear on the spur gear and a bit more noise from the drivetrain. For...

There is a lot of variance in paper thickness. Newspaper paper? Printer paper? Letter paper? Post-It note? My advice is to forget about vague tricks that only get you an actually proper gear mesh by chance. The correct way to set the gear mesh is not really that complicated: just adjust the...