Clock gear spacing
After playing with the locations of the motors and gears I roughly sketched an assembly diagram with the location of the motors and shafts to allow me to estimate various part sizes. My gears were described as “27 mm Diameter
Posted in: Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: Gears
Book Review – Gears and Gear Cutting
Gears and Gear Cutting is No. 17 in the Workshop Practice Series Ivan Law’s book is aimed at model engineers and novice horologists who want to understand and make gears. Like all of the books in the series it is
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: Gears
Mikes Gear Cutting
I’ve been following Mike’s Models blog for some time now and Mike’s helped me out with silver soldering questions in the past. One of his current projects is to make some pinion wheels for a kids toy. There are various
Posted in: Machining
Tags: fly cutting, Gears
Books on gears
Dug North has been compiling lists of books on gears on his Automata blog so I thought I’d share them with you. http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2009/04/list-of-books-on-gear-design-and.htmlhttp://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2009/05/more-books-on-gears-theory-and_06.html As you might expect for an automaton maker, Doug has written quite a lot on gears on
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: Automata, dug north, Gears
Challenging Project?
If you are looking for a challenging workshop project and are bored with complex steam engines, grinding machines and clocks then you could always follow in the footsteps of Michael Wright who decided to build an Antikythera Device in his
Posted in: Projects
Tags: Antikythera Device, Gears
Marvelous Mechanical Gadgets
A selection of gadgets, gears and mechanisms.
Posted in: Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: Gears, Kinetic Sculpture
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
