cnc wood gears

[woodman13]

here is a gear that is ideal for CNC.
unlike conventional gears it is asymetric

vist my website at
http://www.pathcom.com/~u1068740/fancy-gears.html

[chuckknigh]

I've just downloaded some of your stuff. I really like the looks of your 2003 clock, with its pendulum surrounding the movement. Reminds me a bit of some of Marc Tovar's work.

A CNC clock is one of the things I want to do with my router...maybe one of these days...

-- Chuck Knight

[Zagroseckt]

This looks like some of those mid evil gering sets. hmm
i may have to do some research on this
just to kill time.

[wjbzone]

Gary,
Great website.
I downloaded the acad clock design. I'll probably have questions when I get into making one.
Bill

[Mr.Chips]

Gary,
Glad to see you'r posting in CNCZone. I'v enjoyed your website for many months.
Keep up the good work, and making plans available form your site.
Hager

[bb99]

Nice work!

--Alan

[woodman13]

I'll have to get cracking on posting up the plans for the gear sets.

Can supply in solidworks format or dxf.

gary

[ynneb]

I love your animations in your web site.
They show well what actually happens.

Thanks Gary

[vacpress]

Please upload the soliddworks files! that would be great. that thing looks fun to check out. i can trade some SW files for it. ive got lots of fun designs.

[ynneb]

Gary, do you sell your clocks? Are they easy to sell?
You have inpired me to make some interesting designs.

On your web site you show how to make the gears by hand, is that how you do them, or are you now a CNCer?

Oh and if you could post your DXF gear set that would be good too. Is the gear set of your high backlash low friction design?

Have you experimented with a motorized version clock? ( Probably a taboo question ? )

[Ken_Shea]

You have inpired me to make some interesting designs.
Benny don't you have a router to finish ?

There is something about gears that is really cool, if it wern't for the gears clocks would have little appeal except to tell time.

Ken

[woodman13]

General reply-

No I don't sell clocks and probably wouldn't.

Coupla reasons:

way Too much effort.
I fall in love with my creations and find it hard to part with them.
They'd have to work. Too much tinkering to keepem running. People would ask for their money back when they stopped.

So these babies are strictly for the hobbiest.

About Solidworks et al....The files tend to be huge. Very hard to post up native files. There are ways to compress the files by suppressing features but that would mean giving the files to someone with a lot of experience with the program. If that is you and you have an FTP site I'd be willing to post up a few. I just don't have room on my webserver for this.

For now live with dxf. It's all you need really.

Iam not a CNC user except for generating files for the guys I work for during the day. CNC looks like an interesting hobby but not for me. Drawing the parts in the computer is enough. Still like to get my hands into it. Not looking to mass produce anything just yet.

gary