Thanks Joe! Thanks to all for the welcome btw, this is a cool group and everyone has been pretty nice so far.

I always try to respect the forum rules (going forward I will not post pricing information in the future, sorry). Just to reiterate my intentions, as I stated above, I am not expecting to make any money off this stuff (no one I know really does) but rather just have some fun and make a product that I can sell for a price that will actually offset the cost of making it. I just enjoy designing and building stuff. (and breaking it too). I would be happy to get Mike dealer quantities and pricing, if he can make a margin on it, god bless!

As for the Jato gears, sounds like a good idea, the only problem is that if I go much smaller than 50 teeth, I run into problems finding appropriate pinion gears small enough to hit the target gear ratio range. One of the reasons I went to another brand of gear and went through the trouble of making the gear offset mount is that it makes finding and trying pinion gears easier (much easier access to pinions sizes 14-20 in my LHS experiences than finding 4, 5, and 6 tooth pinions). Again, this associated gear is really popular, and is only 3 bucks per gear typically. Cheap, easy, and accessible.