BritishIdeas » gears http://www.britishideas.com Interesting Tech Projects Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Making Gears http://www.britishideas.com/2008/07/13/making-gears/ http://www.britishideas.com/2008/07/13/making-gears/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:02:57 +0000 Andy http://www.britishideas.com/2008/07/13/making-gears/ Today it was time to give some new gear generation code a try. Using CamBam I created gcode for a gear with a 2″ pitch diameter, 18 teeth, 20 degree pressure angle and a diametral pitch of nine. I then cut a couple of them out.

The original plan was to work on precise cutting of two sides of an object. That idea failed so I had to eyeball it. Here is a video of my Fireball CNC V90 and EMC2 (running on Ubuntu Gutsy) in action:

The gears fit together nicely.

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