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Me! - completely lost

DaveH

Let me help ya a little Dave. I generated the gears with this program. I just counted the teeth from the enlarges pictures. I substituted the distance I wanted between the teeth for the pitch. Play with the program, it;s fuin.


http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html

"Billy G"

(10-30-2012, 07:05 PM)Bill Gruby Wrote: [ -> ]Hmmmm --- Either you are familiar with what is going on or you are completely lost ???

"Billy G"

Me too Dave, but I had to wait for sommeone else before I admitted it;

OK -- Let's back up.I am going to build a Kaleidoscope that has weight driven optics. You will not have to turn the optics, the weight will do it. What you see so far is the print I made using the gears generated by the program. Another picture attache that I got all the info from. My Keidoscope is a clone of the one attached. There are no prints so I have to reverse engineer mine from the pix available.

Hope this clears it up some.

"Billy G"

That one has some amazing inlay work on the body. The gears appear to be wood, but I can't imagine making a roller chain out of it.

A number of years ago there was 30 year old guy who lived about 5 miles east of me, and we worked at the same company (Norton.) One day he won some $7.4M in the lottery, and retired at age 34 to engage in his new hobby....collecting kaliedoscopes. He made the local paper when he bought a few for tens of thousands of dollars and they showcased his collection. He died suddenly (don't know the circumstances), never married. I wonder what became of his collection. He would have had or bought one of those, for sure.

Ken-- The roller chain is indeed made from wood. If I were to venture a guess at a pecentage of materials other than wood that are in this project I would say no more than 5%. Nuts and bolts are wood. Gears are wood. There is not one fastener that is not wood.

"Billy G"

Before I go further I left something important out. The design I am reverse engineereng is by J.R. Beall.

http://www.bealltool.com/jrbeall/

"Billy G"

(11-01-2012, 07:47 AM)Bill Gruby Wrote: [ -> ]Before I go further I left something important out. The design I am reverse engineereng is by J.R. Beall.

http://www.bealltool.com/jrbeall/

"Billy G"

I stumbled on that design on a wooden clock page last night. It looks like a fun project.

Garry's Clocks

Tom

Thanks Bill,
I didn't know they had optics in them, I always thought it was all done by mirrors
What parts will turn? Or which part will turn?

DaveH

By optics I am referring to the object box at one end -- the part that turns Dave. You are correct about the mirrors. This scope will have 3 mirrors, all movable.

"Billy G"