Jaunty ArtSaw this on LinkedIn and I think it perfectly sums up LinkedIn
The Turtle@JauntyArt given enough torque, I'm guessing the blue hubless one will be the first one to deform and get half its teeth stripped, allowing the other three to freely accomplish something. Or not.
Jeff GriggIf the hole in the middle is the size of the shaft, then the blue one in the back would be reinforced with a massive shaft, leaving the purple one in the foreground to get torn apart.
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Assuming that one of the remaining two gears is being driven with force, the three other gears are doomed, because their teeth are inappropriately sized to mesh properly. Also, the blue seems to have one more tooth than the red (and there's no problem with that), but the two gears in the background are too different in size to match speeds across those four gears. Something else has to "give." (Probably the teeth?)