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Making gears

How DO they do that??
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ddyke
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Making gears

Post by ddyke »

This guy has a tutorial on making your own gears.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Hobbynut
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Re: Making gears

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Hi Dan

Some inspiring links. The mind boggles at what we could do as scale modellers if only we hade a shed full of this stuff and the hours in the week! never mind! retirement looms in the distance!!
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Re: Making gears

Post by ddyke »

Even without making a gear, I learned a lot on little things. If we don't make the tool, at least we know what to buy. It would take 30-40 gears to pay for the cutter.

Dan
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