[RainMan 2.0]

Wow nice work Rick . I have no idea why I find gears so fascinating , but I do .
Impressive looking gear when done in the capable hands of someone with a bandsaw .

For a kid, I think there’s a lot pinch areas with all those gears though lol.

You’ve given me an idea . Done right , a small gear reduction motor turning the gears slowly could potentially make for some really cool wall art. Some plexi and LEDs etc ?

 

[RainMan 2.0]

Thanks.

The bandsaw work was made easier by using the Carter Stabilizer guide, which allows use of blades down to 1/8" for scroll-like work on the bandsaw. WAY easier than using a scrollsaw.

Yeah, the "pinch" thing for kids has risen as an issue. My granddaughter is a newly minted 5yr old and she was only mildly impressed with it and showed no interest in playing with it once it was "given" to her as a gift. Hopefully, that changes as she gets older.

No matter however. When I first started with the gears, she saw stacks of the two smaller ones on my workbench and started playing with them. When I showed her a couple mounted on the peg board she said "Cool. What are you making? A machine?" That was just about enough to make it worthwhile.

I have just the motors for that wall art.

Rick

I’m really amazed at the labour that went into that project . It’s unfortunate a child can’t comprehend the work and love that went into something like this .
But with any luck that will be around for decades to come , and they’ll be showing how it works and talking about how grandpa made that

 

[RainMan 2.0]

If marbles are used in the gear set how about making a couple of marble gears? Not sure how well they would work, but instead of meshing teeth make coves in each so that only when a marble drops through it engages mating gears and gravity spins them. Or glue marbles into one gear that ride in coves on the mating gear. Let the marbles serve as the teeth for the gears. Or every other cove in two mating gears has a marble glued into it.

Sorry, but once you said "marbles" I've been possessed by the possibility of marble gears.

4D

That’s a very unique idea. Something I’d like to see implemented.