This thread is amazing! I love the team work effort.
Tom the print looks amazing! Very clever with the aluminum tape!
My mind is boggling though, does anyone know what that hob gear is actually for?! Is it some kind of grain grinding gear? It doesn’t look like it would mechanically fit into another gear?
It sure is a weird gear setup!
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Thanks! It's a tool for cutting teeth on the flat gear to mesh with a worm gear (a setup to turn rotational motion 90 degrees). The tool is put into a lathe to cut the gear teeth something like this:
The rest of the redesign modelling is done but I've run into some scaling problems using the new reference, I have reason to believe it's bigger than I originally thought but I'm struggling to make the new scale fit with the overall length...