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Many thanks to the Vectric Ltd. Staff for including the photo link to this project in the latest email Newsletter. There will be an even more complex gear project to be posted in another thread soon. Final assembly is underway. It only has 16 gears in it to deal with. Using the Vectric Ltd. Aspire s...

Typo alert!

The elliptical gears project are made of 1/8" plywood, not 1/4". Each gear is about 4.25" by about 3.5".

Richard

I cut the elliptical gears this morning and finally figured out how to assemble the parts and make it work properly. This version is made of 1/4" thick Baltic birch aircraft grade plywood. I used 6-32 by 3/8" flat head screws, 1/8" hole fender washers, and Nylock nuts to assemble it. The axle holes ...

I'll have to replace the tires and wheels with bigger ones to fill in the wheel openings, or install a lift kit to lower it to ground level.

I wish they had taken the photo so that you can see more of the flames behind me. They extend onto the door somewhat.

Richard

I presented the plaque to Buddy Isles Jr. at the Buddy Isles Tire and Automotive business in Littleton, NC this afternoon. One of his employees took the cellphone photo. Their Collision Department did all of the paint work, and the other departments replaced the muffler and tailpipe, and fully under...

Sometime this afternoon I plan to meet with the person I made the square gears plaque for and take the photo that I promised Michael Tyler. Look for it here later today. Meanwhile, I found a DXF file for the elliptical gears here: https://3axis.co/crosslink-ellipse-parts-dxf/0eo4jgoj/ I have it set ...

I love those square gears, Richard! (I also want to see a photo of your “Hot Wheels” truck! Maybe you and the owner of the body shop can pose with it in the background, when you present him with the plaque!) I showed him the project this morning and it impressed him a lot. I will add a support on t...

That is really cool. Where can I find a file for that? I'd like to try it too. The attached .dxf file has all four parts in it. It has very large size parts, but all four parts vectors must be scaled down together to the size you want in order to preserve the gear mesh correctly. Creative Commons r...

Early in my CNC machine hobby I cut a square gear project that I found online. It has been shown to many visitors over the years and they have been skeptical until they rotate the gears and see what happens. Recently I have had a local automotive paint shop do a full body paint job on my 26 year old...

I do a lot of carvings that are cut into red oak using a nearly zero tip width 60 degree V-bit (Whiteside #1540). If I need to go a little deeper than the surface of the material to insure that it cuts deep enough into coarse grain wood I set the start depth to something like 0.005" to 0.008" to dee...

That's a very nice looking project. One suggestion for a modification though.

Scale it up and install a pedal drive for a deserving very young person.

Richard

Thanks Scott. I don't seem to have any bleeding problem with padauk like you seem to. I sanded the parts individually and always spray three coats of Minwax clear semi-gloss polyurethane on everything. Sometimes if there is a lot of sanding powder left, I save it in Zip-lock sandwich bags for future...

I cut each piece of wood one at a time. The sheet is stuck to the MDF spoil board with a piece double side tape at the ends and middle. A 1/16" hole is drilled through the wood at each corner and two in the middle edges of the wood. A 5/8" flat head nail is used to fasten the wood to the spoil board...

I was thinking of a new idea for using up some 1/8" Padauk and 1/4" Mahogany strips that were 2" wide and 24" long one day and came up with a new version of the Heart theme Cross. I found an outline I liked online and proceeded to figure out what to do with it. The results are 1-3/4" wide by 3" tall...