Hi Peter, On the surface, cutting gears on the legacy is possible since a gear has X number of teeth and an indexer and seperate cutting tool has been used for centuries for cutting gears. The problem becomes the minor details and the level of precision and type of gears you are trying to cut. Do a google search on "involute gear cutters" and you will see how one style of gear is cut. In my complicated/think too much world, I would grind a router bit to cut the profile I need to make my gears. It would only work for matching gears. As the gears get larger, the profile changes. Now in the simple world, I think you might want to look at Mathias Wandel's site. There are several gears that can be made on the legacy. http://woodgears.ca/ I also recall a Fine Woodworking article that talks about cutting router bit profiles in the 80's but I would have to look pretty deep to find it. Maybe an online search at their site might bring it up.
For what it's worth, I don't think a V bit will create a working gear, but depending what you are trying to drive, it might work? Let us know if you try it. -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: parr...@aol.com To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Gears, Pulleys etc. I had the same basic thought of stacking the disks- (baltic birch plywood to be stable & teeth won't snap off as easy as solid wood) to make gears and using the Legacy indexing or expanded indexing plate to space the teeth and then cutting them all at the same time using a V type router bit. For pulleys, I think the Legacy would be the perfect machine for making them .Peter -----Original Message----- From: Curtis <curtgeo...@wowway.com> To: Legacy Ornamental Mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 5:38 am Subject: Re: Gears, Pulleys etc. Bill You could use Mike's indexing concept, Set up a number of disks and cutt them in a row,as if you were roping a part. If you set the correct pitch,after seperating the gears, my guess would be that you would have a number of gears that all meshed together correctly. it might work? Good luck on this idea, and Please send pictures as soon as you can. As for myself, I will stick with pulleys, thay are easer to make and much less of a head ache to figure out. ;-) C.A.G. On Nov 3, 7:09 pm, "Bill Bulkeley" <bulke...@mmnet.com.au> wrote: > gears on a legacy mmm thats sounds like fun I think i might just try that > > Bill B > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: sterlingmi...@aol.com > To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:29 AM > Subject: Gears, Pulleys etc. > > Has anyone here used their Legacy to make wood gears, or pulleys- like on a block & tackle ? > > Peter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To post to this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
