The gabaris for wooden gears.

[cloetpatrick]

 ; ) Hello, I fell yesterday on an interesting topic for clocks wooden mechanism.
http://www.woodenworksclocks.com/Design.htm
I enjoyed making the template to measure the exact distance between the axes.

At night, I began to imagine other three templates, one for grinding a perfectly round piece while keeping its axis perfectly centered and that would amount to my circular sander. A second is used to drill holes with equal spacing between them so as to make the teeth. This would amount to drill on my column. A third used to stick pins in a perfectly square center gear, which can have gear with their axes which do not veil.
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As the projects will be made, I would put the pictures here.

[Dawie]

Besides making great piece you are also an inventor. Good work. Looking forward to seeing what you have made.
David

[cloetpatrick]

  There ... I made a dozen trials for the drilling of teeth of gears. I must say that it is useless, it must be too specific it is better to follow the guidelines and draw the gear directly on the wood, rather than trying to solve a system for hours to have a very encouraging result . By cons on the grinding round keeping an axis perfectly centered, then it's worth it.
To start, I made a small round circle with an old washing machine motor which I placed on its axis a wooden tray. After having "set the stage, I would have loved boxing and a work table on which I made a great light that allows for the attachment of other devices, such as the template I'm talking about here.



I then embarked on the construction of my size, starting with the table. A rectangle containing a bolt whose pitch is 10 mm.



Then I built the adjusting lever containing its light 10 mm in width, and an axis of 6 mm in diameter. Plus a round that serves thick and attaches to the setting later. This thickness is changed according to the diameter size of the workpiece.



Here's here all the parts that make up the template.



Here's how the template is attached to the wheel.



After adjusting the workpiece against the wheel, it manages to make a perfect circle and good control measure with calipers and rotating the workpiece against the wheel while it rotates. We keep a perfect centering of the axis.



It remains for us to stick the design on the wood and cut each tooth to the jigsaw. Then make sure to sand it all and especially not to leave any "burrs" on the teeth, and the piece is finished! ... We can then check with the first template that I put here.

[northie66]

Are you an engineer by trade?

[cloetpatrick]

Ho No, Jannet! ... I am a former technician simple and small building. But my father always told me when I was a child "learns the most in your life anyway because everyone learns to his death." Therefore I am always interested in everything and learned a peak in my life, like my father advised me.
Here there is nothing to what I learned doing it enough to see what my brother did and there you might think he is an engineer, yet he does the same job as I did in the time, field supervisor in the building.
Here is a link that takes you to my little brother in his field issue hobbies;

http://www.usinages.com/mes-realisations-t12644.html#147685

Of course my little brother speaks only French, but this is what he said in his post;
I created this post just to find me more easily when they ask me some information about one of my achievements
Philip
Each link below there is a result of his work.

Well, I noticed that you must be connected to the site to see the pictures, simply register. Of course everything is free in this site discution super interesting for fans of mechanics. However, here are some of these images.

[northie66]

You are very inquisitive. And the way you write your thoughts reminds me of an engineer. My father-in-law was an engineer. Upon his death I happened upon notes and diagrams he took just to plan the placement of the outdoor Christmas lights. People like this remind me of the great man Leonardo da Vinci. He was the epitome of a inquisitive person.

[cloetpatrick]

  Ah ... ha! ... ha! ... With us we always say to children, "curiosity is a bad thing, yet it is true that my curiosity is still as it was in my childhood and I must say it has always served well in my life. My little brother and even worse than me in that spirit, he not only learn by watching and adding to what others are doing, he also learns in books highly technical and specialized in mechanical and electrical engineering.
I would not have been interested in my life, I would say perhaps as many say "It is a gift" ... Outside there is no question of me to think, because for me the gift that is in the courage to learn (even with the curious).

[cloetpatrick]

  My great country of disorder, I lost my compass, so be it, I put one quarter of an hour to make a new one, here it is for those who want to copy my idea.
It works great

[northie66]

How that makes a compass is beyond my comprehension.

[cloetpatrick]

  Simple, an iron rod diameter 6 mm smaller to the point, two small blocks of wood very hard, and some fins and a pencil and voila! ...