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Small gears nylon/brass/steel
July 6, 2011
10:01 AM
Tenn
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Can someone please direct me to a source (or several) of small ready made gears.

Thanks,

~Chris

 

         The man who will not share his wisdom, however foolish it may seem, For the betterment of his peers and the improvement of his trade, Is not worth his weight in swarf !   Learn from others mistakes, you probably won't live long enough to make them all yourself. But I do think I'm making progress on a lot of them!   ~Chris    
July 6, 2011
11:02 AM
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The first place that comes to mind is ww.sdp-si.com They specialize in small parts.

when in doubt use aluminum
July 6, 2011
1:25 PM
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What size are you looking for?

July 6, 2011
2:24 PM
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Thanks David I'll look that up.

A neighbor brought me a worm gear out of a
fish filet knife ?!

 

The worm part is 0.535" OD x 0.573"
long
 the other regular gear looking part is 0.725" OD
0.230" wide gear x 0.582" overall
width with 180° offset posts that run the knife blades back and forth.
Looks like it will be some sort of specialty item not found in normal catalogs?     

The best I can tell a 36  measured
with a involute-DP14 1/2° gear pitch gauge ?

 

I'd still like other regular gear info for my own use
though. 

 

I thought he needed a regular gear when he asked if I could help
him find one but maybe someone would like to have a go at this as it's way over
my head ! If I had a camera I'd post a pictureConfused.

 

What's a decent "cheap" (I'm on Disability) camera that
will upload onto the computer ?

 

~Chris

 

 

 

         The man who will not share his wisdom, however foolish it may seem, For the betterment of his peers and the improvement of his trade, Is not worth his weight in swarf !   Learn from others mistakes, you probably won't live long enough to make them all yourself. But I do think I'm making progress on a lot of them!   ~Chris    
July 6, 2011
2:34 PM
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Mc Master Carr online has all kind of gears along with all kind of sizes, the prices can be inexpensive to very expensive.

This might help if your wanting to make some gears. this is for making wood gears but you can use it for making simple brass or aluminum gear.

http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutti…..plate.html

 

more info on gears.

http://www.gizmology.net/gears.htm

 

 

July 7, 2011
11:44 PM
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What's a decent "cheap" (I'm on Disability) camera that
will upload onto the computer ?

There are lots of them! But it depends on how you define cheap. If you're looking for under $25 and in new (not used or refurbished condition) your choices are limited, but you can still find a name brand (Kodak, HP, Polaroid) camera, especially if you're not worried about a garish color (like pink). 

Here's a link to a search filtered down to new name-brand cameras on Amazon for $25 or less (although there are some showing up as Used even though I chose new in the search string because the seller is trying to be sneaky – so be careful). 

I'm not a camera guy, so I can only give you basic advice based on what I've used in the past. In my experience 3-5 mega pixels is plenty of image quality to post on the web. In fact, 1 mega pixel is enough, but finding a 1mp camera nowadays with good optics would be hard. But I've seen 10 year old sony digital cameras that are 1.x mp that take excellent pictures! But these were top-of-the-line cameras in their day with excellent optics. To get a decent camera today that's new, you'd probably have to buy a 3+mp camera. But bigger isn't better if all you want is pictures for the web. If you splurge on a 10mp camera you'll just have to edit the images to make them smaller before you upload them. Ideally you want your images to be less than 1 megabite in size when you upload them. A truly optimized image for the web can be as small as 2-300k (or in some cases even smaller) and still look excellent. 

Just for clarification. A 3mp cameral will give you a 3x5 image at roughly 300dpi (color printer quality). But since your average computer monitor displays 72dpi, this is 4x more resolution than the monitor can handle (so it's just wasted picture quality). Not to mention that most images don't need to be 3x5" to be effective. 

Again, I'm not a camera guy so someone please jump in if I'm way out in left field. 

Another thing I learned the hard way is try to stay away from a camera with a proprietary battery. They are expensive and don't have a long life span. I've had two digital cameras. One I liked (a sony) and one I've hated (an HP) and the main difference was the HP had a funky battery while the sony took AA's. So my HP was always dead when I needed it. Well, my Sony was also usually dead when I needed it, but the difference was I could pop two cheap AA's in the sony and take the needed photos. I had to wait to charge the HP (you couldn't use the camera while it was charging). If you think you want a proprietary battery because it's rechargeable, get rechargeable AA's instead. 

Now, after that lengthy dissertation on a subject I'm far from an expert on … I give you this advise.

If you have a newer cell phone that can take pictures you should try that first. You'd be surprised at the picture quality of the phones these days. My iPhone takes HD video (720p) and excellent photos. Any newer "smart phone" should take pictures that are just fine for the web. So if you have a newer phone, or you're ready to upgrade to a new cell phone it might make more sense to invest $0-100 (some phones are free with a new contract) into a new cell phone and kill two birds with one stone. Just a thought. 

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July 8, 2011
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Thanks Norman for the gear info. I downloaded the gear generator test thingy and it was really interesting.Smile

And thanks Tyler for the camera info and food for thought.Laugh

~Chris

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July 8, 2011
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A cell phone camera will surprise you with its results, for example the first few months that I was on this site I had used my webcam to take photos which is almost equivalent to a phone camera. I have sense up graded to a 7mp samsung that was $200 at the time. The results are clear cut for which is superior but you can still see all that needs to be seen in the first image. But with todays technology current cameras are half the price and double the quality.    

The best laid schemes on mill and lathe, Go often askew, -Bobby Burns, If he was a machinist.  
July 8, 2011
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Got a digital Polaroid camera on the way from http://www.tigerdirect.com/  Polaroid CAA-300CC Digital Camera – 3 MegaPixels, CMOS
Sensor, 2x Digital Zoom, 1.4" LCD, USB
(P409-2068) for $22 shipping
included and sure enough as Tyler said it's "Hot Pink"Yell maybe I
won’t lose it in the clutter? We'll see if I can figure out how to use it
and post pics ?? I'd like to show off my shop too a bit and a few of the
homemade and handy gadgets I've built. Not near as nice and clean as some of
the shop pics on here thoughEmbarassed so don't get yer hopes up too high.
May give me some incentive to do some cleaning out there ?? Kill off some
of the spider population !! 

Good pics Alex !! Hope I can make some half decent ones ?

 

~Chris

 

         The man who will not share his wisdom, however foolish it may seem, For the betterment of his peers and the improvement of his trade, Is not worth his weight in swarf !   Learn from others mistakes, you probably won't live long enough to make them all yourself. But I do think I'm making progress on a lot of them!   ~Chris    
July 8, 2011
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Chris, try http://www.bostongear.com/prod…..index.html.  Good luck.

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