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Sure wish there was still machinery like that around here!there might have been if j p morgan had shares in steam !!!!
Sure wish there was still machinery like that around here!Given your filing and grinding skills, sure you could file the profile of a gear cutter on a piece of tool steel. Do you have a fly cutte and a rotary table or index head? Thats how I cut gears for my first clocksThanks for that i have never cut gears before but being an Autodidact it will be a new skill in my oeuvre There are 35 teeth on these gears and they are about 13mm outside diameter so we will see what eventualizes as they say across the pond
If we leave you on a desert island with a stack of metal, a file, and a c clamp, you would come home in a new steam yacht![/quoteYes but only if it is summer in blighty !! I do surprise myself sometimes actually...........So the other gear is cut and they do mesh quite well , I machined up a holder in the lathe and set the speed right down and they ran ok !! A few pics...i did take a video but that will have to wait a bit......So that bit is sort of done. they are made in brass but if they are dull nickel plated or something they could remain brass........Thanks for the comments etc