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Gears & Gear Making References

Gear Design Theory

• How Gears Work

• How pendulums work

• Gear Theory

• Hugh Sparks

• http://www.akgears.com/pdf/direct.pdf

• http://www.bostongear.com/products/open/theory.html

• http://www.sdp-si.com/D190/D190cat.htm

• http://www.epi-eng.com/GBX-GearDesign.htm#intro

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/11572720/m3-Machine-Design-Gear

• http://www.gizmology.net/gears.htm

• http://www.wmberg.com/catalog/pdf/b00k2-16.pdf

• http://www.bostongear.com/pdf/gear_theory.pdf

Gear Design Software , Simulation, for CNC, 3D Printing, etc

The following programs make the calculations much easier and most of these can create DXF files for direct import into a CAD or CNC program

• Mathias Wandel - www.woodgears.ca : This is one of the most impressive freeware programs. A limted free demo and purchase versions available - I bought one and it saved hours. It exports files in .DXF, SketchUp, etc.

• OpenSource Application - http://www.forestmoon.com/Software/GearDXF/ , that loads a 2.5D .DXF and then converts it to a GCode file. The file can be simulated or connected to a real CNC machine. I haven't test this connected to my CNC yet, but the conversion seems to work well.

  • • http://www.forestmoon.com/Software/MillCmdr/

• http://woodgears.ca/gear/help3/index.html

• http://www.woodenworksclocks.com/Design.htm

• http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511605512&cid=CBO9780511605512A011&p=5

• Hyperphysics

• • Faucault's Pendelum experiments and Pendulum equations

  • http://www.edu-ctr.pref.kanagawa.jp/LinkWeb/index_e.htm (for simulation of linkages)

• http://www.forestmoon.com/Software/GearDXF/

• • Google Sketchup and integration to CamBam

  • GearDXF - > http://www.ForestMoon.com/Software/GearDXF/

Making Gears

• Start wth http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html either buy the program or use HPGL2DXF (or search Google) to load into CAD or CAM program to prepare files for CNC machine

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuhr3htNWs&feature=related

• See also Making Gears on a CNC machine -> here

Gear Calculators

• http://www.csparks.com/watchmaking/CycloidalGears/CycloidCalculator.html

  • http://watchmaking.csparks.com/CycloidalGears/CycloidCalculator.html

• http://eagle.csd49.org/middle/jss/Course_GearCalc.htm

• http://www.csparks.com/watchmaking/WheelCutting.html

• http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Epicycloid.html

• http://www.geocities.com/mvhw/clocklinks.html#CALC

• http://www.zakgear.com/Over_Pins.html

• http://bobcad.com.au/downloads/documentation/v19/GearLesson1.pdf

• http://www.ohyeahcad.com/download/

• http://www.zakgear.com/involute.html

• http://www.gizmology.net/gears.htm

  • Gear Train Calculator http://www.bhi.co.uk/aHints/bph2.html

• http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/gear-ratio3.htm

• http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/gear-ratio5.htm

Animation & Videos of Gears

• Gear Labs - http://www.gearlab.org/pages/others/Gear_Collections.html

• Wood Gears - http://woodgears.ca/gear/help3/index.htm

  • Making Square Gears - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcqJ5HdxA4

  • Google Sketckup - SketchyPhysics and Simulation of gears

  • http://sketchyphysics.wikia.com/wiki/Gears

  • http://sketchyphysics.wikia.com/wiki/Video:SP3_feature_Gears.

  • http://capolight.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/drawing-gears-in-sketchup/

Fasteners for Gears -

• Plastic fasteners http://www.voltplastics.com/pdf/VOLTCatalog24.pdf

Wooden Clock Making

Various Interesting Designs

• http://www.ldrider.ca/cnc/garysclock/garysclock.htm

• David J. Morrow's version of the clock - but made in metal

  • Wooden Times or Ukrkunst and http://www.woodentimes.com/tutorials.html

• WoodenWorksClock

• WoodenClockWorks

  • Woodthatworks

• Clayton Boyer

• John Randle

• WoodGearClocks

Some Cool Clocks

• http://www.theartofdalemathis.com/

• http://garysclocks.sawdustcorner.com/picture_world_mathis.html

• http://watchmaking.weebly.com/motion-work-i.html

Clocks without hands

Next Project: Water Clocks (clepsydra)

(Greek κλέπτειν kleptein, 'to steal'; ὕδωρ hudor, 'water')

Diagram of a fancy clepsydra. Water enters and raises the figure, which points at the current hour for the day. Spillover water operates a series of gears that rotates a cylinder so that hour lengths are appropriate for today's date. The ancient Greeks and Romans had twelve hours from sunrise to sunset; since summer days are longer than winter days, summer hours were longer than winter hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clepsydra-Diagram-Fancy.jpeg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock

The Digesting Duck by Jacques de Vaucanson, hailed in 1739 as the first automaton capable of digestion.

Yen Shih [Yan Shi] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401091952AAgrxz0

http://www.visualdragon.com/Blog/?p=1066

Forums

• http://www.bealltool.com/clockforum/index.php

Wood Making Projects

Making a Wooden Lock (yes lock not clock)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Q6NQNkeTHLc

Making Dovetail joints:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxIgNel0H_I

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9Us_1rbZ4&feature=BF&list=QL&index=6

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBNPWoTTwMA&feature=channel