Can anyone do some laser gear cutting for me?
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:45 am
Hi, all!
I'm new here and have run through a lot of threads without finding anything about gear-cutting services.
Or laser cutting services in general, for that matter.
I have a project that needs some round and elliptical gears and a few swing arms for them to fit on.
All of the pieces would be cut from 1/16" sheet plastic so I can lay them out and test the fits and motions. Each piece would have a pinhole at its center of rotation so I could tack them to a board and see what works and what doesn't.
The gears would be between 3 and 6 inches in diameter, and the swing arms just slightly larger.
I'm working with a gear train that is so non-logical it almost defies description.
I can model in Rhino3D (a little), but the gears I'm working with at the moment may have been faked-to-fit. I definitely can't trust them.
They're all 1st order gears, though, so they'd be easy to regenerate with legal teeth.
I would need four identical elliptical gears, and three round gears of different sizes (two of each), plus one singleton round gear. And four swing arms, two long and two short.
It's really not a very complicated machine, just kind of non-Euclidian.
I've looked around locally and lucked out on having gears made with either laser cutting or water jet.
This is a "gig" kind of thing. I'd be quite happy to pay for time, labor & materials.
I'm new here and have run through a lot of threads without finding anything about gear-cutting services.
Or laser cutting services in general, for that matter.
I have a project that needs some round and elliptical gears and a few swing arms for them to fit on.
All of the pieces would be cut from 1/16" sheet plastic so I can lay them out and test the fits and motions. Each piece would have a pinhole at its center of rotation so I could tack them to a board and see what works and what doesn't.
The gears would be between 3 and 6 inches in diameter, and the swing arms just slightly larger.
I'm working with a gear train that is so non-logical it almost defies description.
I can model in Rhino3D (a little), but the gears I'm working with at the moment may have been faked-to-fit. I definitely can't trust them.
They're all 1st order gears, though, so they'd be easy to regenerate with legal teeth.
I would need four identical elliptical gears, and three round gears of different sizes (two of each), plus one singleton round gear. And four swing arms, two long and two short.
It's really not a very complicated machine, just kind of non-Euclidian.
I've looked around locally and lucked out on having gears made with either laser cutting or water jet.
This is a "gig" kind of thing. I'd be quite happy to pay for time, labor & materials.