Loose gears

Loose gears are junk items in Fallout 76.

Characteristics
Gears which have been stored in a small cardboard box for ease of carrying. They cannot be sold to vendors until they have been bulked at a tinker's workbench.

Locations

 * Obtained by scrapping gear-yielding junk which can be found all around Appalachia.
 * Dropped by deathclaws.
 * Junk piles which may contain loose gears can be found at various workshops. A junk extractor can be placed on top of a junk pile to increase its yield.
 * Three at Charleston landfill.
 * One at the converted munitions factory.
 * One at Dabney homestead.
 * One at Gorge junkyard.
 * One at Red Rocket Mega Stop.
 * One at Sunshine Meadows industrial farm.
 * Junk piles can also be found in various other locations throughout Appalachia (see the Gallery for specific locations).
 * Sold as bulk gears by some vendors.