@@ThinkingandTinkering You give me hope, keep, upping your game, I see a man . Make hydrogen and converted a car, is this possible. Love the idea. Lol, free energy. Quantum water. You can are unlimited. Thank you for helping me and sharing,
In my local brewery, they have a steam engine that can run the whole process. Each pair of cogs is made of one cast iron gear and one wooden peg gear. if anything goes wrong, the pegs shear and save the cast iron from any damage :)
Thanks so much old mate, I love these types of gears, so many applications and uses and there is virtually nothing on the web about them, so I really appreciate you taking the time to craft some for our viewing pleasure, I hope there are more examples in the future to come. Your use of time is astounding, I am always amazed at what you achieve in such a short period.
You don’t ever just learn one new thing with Robert, you casually add so much in every video. You very simply and with great charm give wonderful detail and make learning so easy.
Just stumbled upon your channel and all I can say is you're one heck of a good communicator. If all teachers were as knowledgeable and clear in their prose as you are, we would have generations of enthusiastic learners.
Thanks! Very nice presentation of the possibilities with peg wheels. Love your attitide and energy! And I think you are so right when it comes to the importence of being able to create things with more simple tools. Would be wonderful to see a video where you present Christoffer Polhems mechanical alphabet. There are so many possibilities. 👍😊
Thank you for sharing! I'm an old Caterpillar mechanic. I had never heard of a peg gear but, I'm just getting started making whirlygigs so what you showed me is priceless! Your idea to make an oscillator by simply removing half the pegs is so simple yet AMAZING! 😁
Next on RMS, The Power of Flight, recreating Da-Vinci's human powered flying machine.....from string and a few bits of twig.... lol You are amazing. I wish I had a role model like you growing up.
Very nice. And the quick discussion of appropriate use of technology is gold, in my opinion. Having experience in traditional woodworking, flint knapping, and blacksmithing, I've come up with solutions to challenges on the job site that just were not in other folks mental tool boxes. Thanks again for freely sharing these great ideas.
Totally love the good wooden old peg gear tech!. Reminds of all those wonderful atmospheric windmills and ancient machinery i loved visiting on weekends out in my childhood. Then when i got back home i would enthusiastically draw out lots of plans for inventions, and try to make them in the humble garage workshop. Was very much inspiring satisfying stuff, and learnt alot. Well even if some things didnt go exactly to plan :D
Robert I have for all my life loved inventing things and just making things I got curious about and I am sure just watching what you do really inspires me to make something. I found your channel because I searched for Gears for a machine I am making and I only though of a classic modern gear but seeing you make the Cage gear and how easy the use of them is really helped me on the way. I wish that there was a place just for people to try to invent and make stuff together that really could be awesome sadly the culture today is buying something that is already made.
I am trying to figure out an easy way to make the 4 stage herons fountain you showed into a 'perpetual' water feature in my garden without running electricity to it. But i couldn't figure out a way to make it turn itself over without a 'mains electric' motor attached to it. This has given me some new ideas. Thanks Rob, I really do adore this channel and what you put out into the world.
Excellent and valuable message about the importance of learning the roots of various processes! Experiencing the manual processes growing up, made me a much better craftsman in adulthood. I also highly recommend trying some projects using non-powered hand tools exclusively. (very old school style ;) Though they do, sometimes, take longer, using the vintage tech tools can be a very meditative , centering, and exceptionally satisfying experience! The "Zen" of hand tool use if you will! Thanks for another great video Rob!
Who in the heck give a thumbs down to these videos? Must be an elementary school drop out, watching on their old Obama phone, eating Cheetos they bought with their SNAP card. Robert Murray-Smith you are absolutely right about perishable hand skills and the corresponding brain. Keep these videos coming
You can do the same process with a chopsaw, or use a standard table saw. In both cases, all you need to do is keep the blades running at a set depth, then after you spin your material around a couple times just set the cutting depth a little deeper. Repeat until you cut out your perfect circle! Cheers
Totally agree about the importance of keeping touch with basic skills and tools: it is so important for the process of thinking about whatever we make.
geoff graham Thank you for reuniting us with the precious past when we had no 3D printing machines and frozen chooks. All we had was our manuel labour, some imagination and some basic hand tools. 1 second ago
I've just watched a Jack Hargreaves (Out of Town Presenter) explain the facts about Hornbeam wood How because of its properties it was a favourite wood for mill gears
Oh WOW, you gave me an outstanding overunity idea. Put 9 peg gears on the apparatus you have sitting on the table. Turn only one of them with a motor but have all the others running generators. That is a giant overunity of electricity.
A valid point made about 3d printing. You need to know how to go around the corner properly before you can cut it. Something I try to instil in my students.
Fantastic , so true what you say about keeping this stuff alive, The ship yard here have actual tools that people don’t know how to use , the men that new how are long gone...
You can also clamp your jigsaw upside down in a vice and use a cable tie to hold the trigger on and rotate your square piece of wood using the centre hole on a nail. This same method works with metal disc's and bolts through the holes tightened with nuts for a longer wearing peg gear. Even nails through a wooden disc makes a very quick peg gear if you have finer requirements. Love the video as always, not sure why I didn't get the notification. Blame RUclips not RobTube, lol 😇
I liked the commentary on 3d printing and the making by hand. I got a tiny 3d printer n a standard one and I noticed that as well takes so long to produce and dont appreciate it near as much. I barely use either now. Just for replacement parts handles organizing constructs, wood working jigs tho I have alot I've printed like pocket hole jig router jigs. That's about all I use them for that and toys for the kids lol Second thought you could use wood circles and use bolts ,washers, nuts for the pegs of your worried about longer term ware and tare. Even a threaded rivet . Or a circle of HDPE plastic from a 5 gallon bucket.
They are a tool that is good for a job mate - what gets me is when folks tout them as the answer to everything - nice suggestions too - good post mate - cheers
Agreed. I use all styles of gears and chains drivers. I'm working on some wooden roller chain using some cheap 1/4 in osb board scraps I have, but then again you can buy popsicle sticks cheap in bulk and 2 different sized dowels very cheap as well. Roller chain "bicycle chain" mesh well with peg gears to transfer motion long distances if you design the chain and gear correctly that is. Makes a great sound too. I'm self teaching myself everything so when I find out there is another way even if its obsolete I like to try it. When comes to kinetic energy transfer. I jumped in the middle of everything I'd preferred to start with primitive base of concept style stuff but I got a bit to excited. Thanks for the video was a pleasurem
I like these bc is alot easier to run several different gear sets off the same drive wheel just depends on how thick or wide you make them and how wide you make your gears can use popsicle sticks for the outer edge style pegs they mesh better in my opinion. A quick paint and seal can use as a rough water wheel
Awesome and cool, to quote, and you are right Robert about making things by hand, I think there is nothing more rewarding then hands on. I have limited space and the only basic tools plus a scroll saw. Great video, thanks Robert.
I once heard of a washing machine some bushman had made for his hut out way in the bush. It was powered by water and was entirely made from wood. I bet there was a peg gear in that, powered by a water wheel probably.
Hi Robert , love your videos ,I'm always fascinated with your knowledge and your unique way of making things sound so simple to construct , maybe you could make a video on a simple way to find the true centre of a circle , something I have always struggled with because of my inability to grasp simple mathematics .🤗😍
A couple of interesting points! Every maker (and non-maker too) should visit a watermill or windmill to see exactly how these gears can transfer quite large loads. Also to see the different types of wooden gear! The other point comes down to how you learn about stuff. If you learn by rote you will be able to repeat what you know. If you learn How the stuff works you are free to expand your borders and evolve new techniques! Long may it continue!
We, as a society, absolutely have lost touch with hand fabrication techniques. I was a fabricator for the past 25 years and have noticed the decline of people with this mindset. Shops around here have started running really wonky, if you will, and don't allow any time for the difficult stuff. I threw my hands up and have gone down a different path, but I still love to create!
Lovely words of great importance in this humble video of yours. I can relate to this from the perspective of the high tech world of lithography. New engineers do not come with the knowledge of how stuff is made at the high end level and many do not have the very important perspective of making things by hand. Simple things become humongously important. Case in point, the story of the laser grating. As the actual real story... history..goes, a guy spent 10 years of his life making grooves on a piece of metal. Grooves so tight and precise that they refract light into it's components. All by hand on a simple groove making hand tool/machine. So precious are these metal pieces now because most gratings for lasers come from them as plastic copies. Who will do this again if we were to loose the existing machines? 10 years. No other machine can make them. I will find the link. But yeah, it brings it home, you need glass blowing, grating groove making, and many other innocent looking activities to make microchips.
Love it Robert. Also agree with your philosophy about basic skills. Using high tech tools, after a while you loose touch with skills that are much simpler, and force a higher degree of creativity.
Nice build Rob, simple gearing with basic maths and DIY tools, with all the mysticism taken out (well, most of it anyway!) I like that a lot, I used to do a fair bit of gear cutting on horizontal Mills and hobbers, with a Zeus book in one hand and a calculator in the other, it's amazing how it can be condensed down into simple ideas and rules of thumb, it might not be the most efficient and a bit noisy, but hey it works I love the projects where you take something that seems complex and brain stonkingly hard to do and break it down into easy steps, I'm not that good at chemistry and I've probably learnt more about battery chemistry from your channel that has actually sunk in, than any other channel on the subject, I was trying to think of a name for this one... Rotary wiggler? If you like weird mechanical contrivances, search for 'animated mechanism' and you will have a ton of mad ideas
nice one mate - I will do exactly that and I agree the point here is to get something built that works not spend days scratching your head over the math lol
you can but depending on the speed of change and the the weight you will probably introduce "gear slip" with a physical interface of wood you only have to worry about the weight exceeding the strength of the dowels and the wear over time.
With gears in general you're introducing the physical strength of whatever you're using (wood, metal etc.) and torque (with proper power behind it) which could not be replicated with magnets in any everyday sense? I guess it really depends on what you're doing. The strength of material needed, and the power required behind it to drive it?
Very high speed reciprocating mechanism is very noisy and not reliable for linear generator. But if and only if a mechanism could be devised using magnets, then, I guess it might open up some doors to a reliable linear generator.
Put the lever action sideways and it could be a great way to capture power from waves or tides. More from waves I would think but, I suppose with the proper gearing, It could be done with tides as well. Great video either way, maybe try it using magnets instead of pegs? Cheers Rob.
I've been watching a lot of videos on mechanical calculators recently. Wonder how hard it would be to build one of those that used a bunch of those cage gears? I'm really interested in ways of doing things with simple tools, because my shop is... sparse. It's demoralizing to fire up a video on some cool looking project and then look at what's likely tens of thousands of dollars of fancy equipment they have in their shop. I'm much more a fan of the Paul Sellers approach.
Couple this with your new magnet motor/differential/transmission that is being used reduce ratio on wind generator. Match these magnets with coil over winds and assemble these structures in series
I like that mate - this could always be used as the mechanism for a Bennett double - there is an electronic version of this - should be a fascinating high voltage build
Now you remind me of an angled water wheel. I mean it’s not vertical nor horizontal, it guides water down via a slope. Somewhere I have a small booklet with drawings and explanations.
Excellent info! I've always imagined something like this being used to build the pyramids of Giza, using the Nile river for input power. The reciprocating gears would work perfectly to lift massive stone blocks level by level if you daisy chain a bunch of them together by adding more pegs on the circumference of the input gear, 90 degrees offset from the pegs that drive the cage gear. Using massive timbers to build the gears, they could produce some phenomenal torque by utilizing gear ratios. Large stones could also be cut with this type of mechanism by attaching a lateral cutting saw blade. This makes perfect sense in my mind. What do you guys think?
Its funny you talk about 3D printing. I have a side project that I am working on for a streamer. Kinda like the batman signal. It doesn't spin in a circle but goes back and forth. This project just helped out a ton. Question though... for this particular project (the mini one) did your 30* just happen to work out with the dowel size and the circumference or was there a lot more planning behind the scene? Just asking because it moved smooth!
Thanks for sharing this is interesting and knowledge video, one of my request sir , you please try to make a any free electricity generated project, I think it's possible to -peg gears, used of gravity force , pandulam escapement and etc . What's your opinion please reply Sir
Found the tutorial for making cage/peg gears I was looking for...and then the reciprocating motion! Wow, let's try that instead of a slider crank! There's no variation in speed during the cycle?
no they wouldn't and they wouldn't even know how to repair the grid this. kind of stuff leads to the basic understanding needed to creat, run and repair all the high tech stuff we rely on - or at least that's what I believe
That was something cool I have not seen before. Ps I understand where you are coming from on 3d printers, but you get bigger ones with bigger nozzles but still takes a while to print.
In respect to using a chop/miter saw for cutting a circle: this can be dangerous, but with care once most cuts are made you can rotate the board clockwise, when work piece is on the right of the blade. Quite accurate this way just be careful everyone😉
Rob, loving these inspiring video of late. If ever you have a chance, I’d really like to see you think about and put together a DIY Perovskite solar cell! I’ve been very curious about these and have seen a few DIY video about them, but knowing you, you find way to add a graphene twist to them. Lol btw, taking appart my first microwave today to start my vibration generator experiment! Cheers mate!
Respect, love and gratitude. You are unlimited. Loving the good energy. Thank you for helping me. Respect
cheers mate
@@ThinkingandTinkering You give me hope, keep, upping your game, I see a man . Make hydrogen and converted a car, is this possible. Love the idea. Lol, free energy. Quantum water. You can are unlimited. Thank you for helping me and sharing,
In my local brewery, they have a steam engine that can run the whole process. Each pair of cogs is made of one cast iron gear and one wooden peg gear. if anything goes wrong, the pegs shear and save the cast iron from any damage :)
I like that mate - now isn't that clever - thanks for sharing
@@ThinkingandTinkering Victorian mechanical fuses :)
lol - for sure
Love it. Someone was thinking back then....unfortunately, it seems that most people have forgotten how to think these days. Let’s change that😎👍
People were taught how to think back then.
Now we are "taught" what to think.
Thanks so much old mate, I love these types of gears, so many applications and uses and there is virtually nothing on the web about them, so I really appreciate you taking the time to craft some for our viewing pleasure, I hope there are more examples in the future to come. Your use of time is astounding, I am always amazed at what you achieve in such a short period.
absolutely mate and yes I do work quickly lol
@@ThinkingandTinkering Your a champion! (not the spark plug type lol)
You don’t ever just learn one new thing with Robert, you casually add so much in every video. You very simply and with great charm give wonderful detail and make learning so easy.
thank you mate and thank you for taking the time to say so
Just stumbled upon your channel and all I can say is you're one heck of a good communicator. If all teachers were as knowledgeable and clear in their prose as you are, we would have generations of enthusiastic learners.
cheers mate and thanks for taking the time to say so
Thanks! Very nice presentation of the possibilities with peg wheels. Love your attitide and energy! And I think you are so right when it comes to the importence of being able to create things with more simple tools. Would be wonderful to see a video where you present Christoffer Polhems mechanical alphabet. There are so many possibilities. 👍😊
I agree mate Polhem's alphabetic very interesting indeed - I used to go to Stockholm a lot - I haven't been in a while - maybe it's time for a visit ?
Thank you for sharing! I'm an old Caterpillar mechanic. I had never heard of a peg gear but, I'm just getting started making whirlygigs so what you showed me is priceless!
Your idea to make an oscillator by simply removing half the pegs is so simple yet AMAZING! 😁
Next on RMS, The Power of Flight, recreating Da-Vinci's human powered flying machine.....from string and a few bits of twig.... lol You are amazing. I wish I had a role model like you growing up.
lol - cheers mate and thank you for taking the time to post and say that
I bet his grandchildren are inspired by Rob every time they visit the lab.
But we can’t afford Robert to test pilot it 😂
Very nice.
And the quick discussion of appropriate use of technology is gold, in my opinion.
Having experience in traditional woodworking, flint knapping, and blacksmithing, I've come up with solutions to challenges on the job site that just were not in other folks mental tool boxes.
Thanks again for freely sharing these great ideas.
awesome mate and you are right exactly what I am on about - cheers
Totally love the good wooden old peg gear tech!. Reminds of all those wonderful atmospheric windmills and ancient machinery i loved visiting on weekends out in my childhood. Then when i got back home i would enthusiastically draw out lots of plans for inventions, and try to make them in the humble garage workshop. Was very much inspiring satisfying stuff, and learnt alot. Well even if some things didnt go exactly to plan :D
lol - for me most of the time things never really go to plan mate - I joke - I get what you are saying and totally agree
@@ThinkingandTinkering Thanks Rob, and much appreciated too!, cheers :) (y)
The simplicity of the reciprocation mechanism put a giant smile on my face.
cheers mate
Robert I have for all my life loved inventing things and just making things I got curious about and I am sure just watching what you do really inspires me to make something. I found your channel because I searched for Gears for a machine I am making and I only though of a classic modern gear but seeing you make the Cage gear and how easy the use of them is really helped me on the way. I wish that there was a place just for people to try to invent and make stuff together that really could be awesome sadly the culture today is buying something that is already made.
I am trying to figure out an easy way to make the 4 stage herons fountain you showed into a 'perpetual' water feature in my garden without running electricity to it. But i couldn't figure out a way to make it turn itself over without a 'mains electric' motor attached to it. This has given me some new ideas. Thanks Rob, I really do adore this channel and what you put out into the world.
thank you mate and good luck with you project - I like the sound of it
Love the way you made the big wheel, very clever. Please keep up the good work of making and sharing these lessons.
With a weighted flywheel it would also work in reverse, taking reciprocating action from the bellows to rotations action on the flywheel.
nice one mate - thanks for the tip
Wooden gears reminds me of going over the mechanical Engineering drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.
for sure mate
Thank you for sharing! I also agree with the how to of making things.
cheers mate
🙂 I love how tickled he got at the reciprocating arm. It's great to be able to take joy from things like that.
And it IS really cool!
The knowledge you share and the way you do it is invaluable. Very much appreciated. I will be passing this on in future to my kids.
that is awesome to know mate - cheers
Excellent and valuable message about the importance of learning the roots of various processes! Experiencing the manual processes growing up, made me a much better craftsman in adulthood. I also highly recommend trying some projects using non-powered hand tools exclusively. (very old school style ;) Though they do, sometimes, take longer, using the vintage tech tools can be a very meditative , centering, and exceptionally satisfying experience! The "Zen" of hand tool use if you will! Thanks for another great video Rob!
Thanks for that interesting introduction to peg gears. I had never considered them before.
they can be very useful mate especially for sketching out ideas and seeing if a model will actually work and doing that quickly
Excellent advice on the importance of keeping touch with all tools and methods.
Thank you sir. It was a pleasure listening to you.
I truly enjoyed your vlog
Your ability to share the importance in understanding how gears work is imperative I think.
Again thank you for sharing
cheers mate
Brilliant! Just what I need for an upcoming project.
Who in the heck give a thumbs down to these videos? Must be an elementary school drop out, watching on their old Obama phone, eating Cheetos they bought with their SNAP card.
Robert Murray-Smith you are absolutely right about perishable hand skills and the corresponding brain. Keep these videos coming
You can do the same process with a chopsaw, or use a standard table saw. In both cases, all you need to do is keep the blades running at a set depth, then after you spin your material around a couple times just set the cutting depth a little deeper. Repeat until you cut out your perfect circle! Cheers
I need to make a windshield wiper and now I know how, thank you!
Totally agree about the importance of keeping touch with basic skills and tools: it is so important for the process of thinking about whatever we make.
absolutely mate
Always delightful to become acquainted with a mechanism that I haven't seen before. Thanks for sharing it with us.
cheers mate
geoff graham
Thank you for reuniting us with the precious past when we had no 3D printing machines and frozen chooks. All we had was our manuel labour, some imagination and some basic hand tools.
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You’re awesome, my friend! I love your philosophy about empowerment and making things from scratch in order to understand how things work
Thank you. This video solved a problem I've been working on.
You have just solved a problem for me! Thank you.
Great simple construction. Now we have a manual as well :-) Thank you.
cheers mate
Someone was channeling his inner James Burke with the 3d printer/laser discussion. Connections. great series.
lol - cheers mate
I've just watched a Jack Hargreaves (Out of Town Presenter) explain the facts about Hornbeam wood How because of its properties it was a favourite wood for mill gears
I like that method for cutting out large circles. That's going to be one crazy AC unit!
lol - go big or go home lol
Oh WOW, you gave me an outstanding overunity idea. Put 9 peg gears on the apparatus you have sitting on the table. Turn only one of them with a motor but have all the others running generators. That is a giant overunity of electricity.
And it would be easy to make, WOW
awesome mate - time to get building?
A valid point made about 3d printing. You need to know how to go around the corner properly before you can cut it. Something I try to instil in my students.
Fantastic , so true what you say about keeping this stuff alive,
The ship yard here have actual tools that people don’t know how to use , the men that new how are long gone...
Brilliant as usual Robert there’s something fascinating about seeing machinery develop.
I agree mate - movement is life!
You can also clamp your jigsaw upside down in a vice and use a cable tie to hold the trigger on and rotate your square piece of wood using the centre hole on a nail.
This same method works with metal disc's and bolts through the holes tightened with nuts for a longer wearing peg gear. Even nails through a wooden disc makes a very quick peg gear if you have finer requirements.
Love the video as always, not sure why I didn't get the notification. Blame RUclips not RobTube, lol 😇
lol - youtube is up and down all the time mate - nice tips by the way - cheers
I liked the commentary on 3d printing and the making by hand. I got a tiny 3d printer n a standard one and I noticed that as well takes so long to produce and dont appreciate it near as much. I barely use either now. Just for replacement parts handles organizing constructs, wood working jigs tho I have alot I've printed like pocket hole jig router jigs. That's about all I use them for that and toys for the kids lol
Second thought you could use wood circles and use bolts ,washers, nuts for the pegs of your worried about longer term ware and tare. Even a threaded rivet . Or a circle of HDPE plastic from a 5 gallon bucket.
They are a tool that is good for a job mate - what gets me is when folks tout them as the answer to everything - nice suggestions too - good post mate - cheers
Agreed. I use all styles of gears and chains drivers. I'm working on some wooden roller chain using some cheap 1/4 in osb board scraps I have, but then again you can buy popsicle sticks cheap in bulk and 2 different sized dowels very cheap as well. Roller chain "bicycle chain" mesh well with peg gears to transfer motion long distances if you design the chain and gear correctly that is. Makes a great sound too. I'm self teaching myself everything so when I find out there is another way even if its obsolete I like to try it. When comes to kinetic energy transfer. I jumped in the middle of everything I'd preferred to start with primitive base of concept style stuff but I got a bit to excited. Thanks for the video was a pleasurem
I like these bc is alot easier to run several different gear sets off the same drive wheel just depends on how thick or wide you make them and how wide you make your gears can use popsicle sticks for the outer edge style pegs they mesh better in my opinion. A quick paint and seal can use as a rough water wheel
nice one mate thanks for the share
Brilliant video, you have highlighted the fact that technology is not always a replacement for ingenuity
Awesome and cool, to quote, and you are right Robert about making things by hand, I think there is nothing more rewarding then hands on. I have limited space and the only basic tools plus a scroll saw. Great video, thanks Robert.
absolutely mate really - you only need a little creativity to come up with marvouless things
That was brilliant how you made them and that last bit was another bit of genius, there is a lot could be done with that motion. :-))
absolutely mate
First thing I thought of is a scroll saw. Super cool.
I once heard of a washing machine some bushman had made for his hut out way in the bush. It was powered by water and was entirely made from wood. I bet there was a peg gear in that, powered by a water wheel probably.
highly likely mate
Hi Robert , love your videos ,I'm always fascinated with your knowledge and your unique way of making things sound so simple to construct , maybe you could make a video on a simple way to find the true centre of a circle , something I have always struggled with because of my inability to grasp simple mathematics .🤗😍
A couple of interesting points!
Every maker (and non-maker too) should visit a watermill or windmill to see exactly how these gears can transfer quite large loads. Also to see the different types of wooden gear!
The other point comes down to how you learn about stuff. If you learn by rote you will be able to repeat what you know. If you learn How the stuff works you are free to expand your borders and evolve new techniques!
Long may it continue!
Mate - I 100% agree with your philosophy there
We, as a society, absolutely have lost touch with hand fabrication techniques. I was a fabricator for the past 25 years and have noticed the decline of people with this mindset. Shops around here have started running really wonky, if you will, and don't allow any time for the difficult stuff. I threw my hands up and have gone down a different path, but I still love to create!
Lovely words of great importance in this humble video of yours. I can relate to this from the perspective of the high tech world of lithography. New engineers do not come with the knowledge of how stuff is made at the high end level and many do not have the very important perspective of making things by hand. Simple things become humongously important. Case in point, the story of the laser grating. As the actual real story... history..goes, a guy spent 10 years of his life making grooves on a piece of metal. Grooves so tight and precise that they refract light into it's components. All by hand on a simple groove making hand tool/machine. So precious are these metal pieces now because most gratings for lasers come from them as plastic copies. Who will do this again if we were to loose the existing machines? 10 years. No other machine can make them. I will find the link. But yeah, it brings it home, you need glass blowing, grating groove making, and many other innocent looking activities to make microchips.
nice illustration mate thanks for taking the time to post it - cheers
Love it Robert. Also agree with your philosophy about basic skills. Using high tech tools, after a while you loose touch with skills that are much simpler, and force a higher degree of creativity.
absolutely mate
Thanks. Yes the reciprocating arm fantastic.
cheers mate
Thank you Sir.
I get excited when a new video comes out.
Nice build Rob, simple gearing with basic maths and DIY tools, with all the mysticism taken out (well, most of it anyway!)
I like that a lot,
I used to do a fair bit of gear cutting on horizontal Mills and hobbers, with a Zeus book in one hand and a calculator in the other, it's amazing how it can be condensed down into simple ideas and rules of thumb, it might not be the most efficient and a bit noisy, but hey it works
I love the projects where you take something that seems complex and brain stonkingly hard to do and break it down into easy steps, I'm not that good at chemistry and I've probably learnt more about battery chemistry from your channel that has actually sunk in, than any other channel on the subject,
I was trying to think of a name for this one... Rotary wiggler?
If you like weird mechanical contrivances, search for 'animated mechanism' and you will have a ton of mad ideas
nice one mate - I will do exactly that and I agree the point here is to get something built that works not spend days scratching your head over the math lol
I’m wondering, could the reciprocating motion be achieved using similar mechanism but with magnets instead of pegs...?
you can but depending on the speed of change and the the weight you will probably introduce "gear slip" with a physical interface of wood you only have to worry about the weight exceeding the strength of the dowels and the wear over time.
With gears in general you're introducing the physical strength of whatever you're using (wood, metal etc.) and torque (with proper power behind it) which could not be replicated with magnets in any everyday sense? I guess it really depends on what you're doing. The strength of material needed, and the power required behind it to drive it?
yes mate - but the comments below are spot on in their tips and adds
Very high speed reciprocating mechanism is very noisy and not reliable for linear generator. But if and only if a mechanism could be devised using magnets, then, I guess it might open up some doors to a reliable linear generator.
Put the lever action sideways and it could be a great way to capture power from waves or tides. More from waves I would think but, I suppose with the proper gearing, It could be done with tides as well. Great video either way, maybe try it using magnets instead of pegs? Cheers Rob.
spot on mate and you are right peg gears are the basis of magnetic gears
I've been watching a lot of videos on mechanical calculators recently. Wonder how hard it would be to build one of those that used a bunch of those cage gears? I'm really interested in ways of doing things with simple tools, because my shop is... sparse. It's demoralizing to fire up a video on some cool looking project and then look at what's likely tens of thousands of dollars of fancy equipment they have in their shop. I'm much more a fan of the Paul Sellers approach.
Couple this with your new magnet motor/differential/transmission that is being used reduce ratio on wind generator. Match these magnets with coil over winds and assemble these structures in series
Charge capacitor plates mounted on 2 of the side cogs and as the plates are at nearest discharge
I like that mate - this could always be used as the mechanism for a Bennett double - there is an electronic version of this - should be a fascinating high voltage build
Now you remind me of an angled water wheel. I mean it’s not vertical nor horizontal, it guides water down via a slope. Somewhere I have a small booklet with drawings and explanations.
I wouldn't mind a look at that myself
Excellent info! I've always imagined something like this being used to build the pyramids of Giza, using the Nile river for input power. The reciprocating gears would work perfectly to lift massive stone blocks level by level if you daisy chain a bunch of them together by adding more pegs on the circumference of the input gear, 90 degrees offset from the pegs that drive the cage gear. Using massive timbers to build the gears, they could produce some phenomenal torque by utilizing gear ratios. Large stones could also be cut with this type of mechanism by attaching a lateral cutting saw blade. This makes perfect sense in my mind. What do you guys think?
we really need to get you rescued from that deserted island!
lol
Amaing. That would be great for a wind driven well water pump
Great Ideas Robert. I can just see the health and safety guys loosing their minds......................LOVE IT!
Its funny you talk about 3D printing. I have a side project that I am working on for a streamer. Kinda like the batman signal. It doesn't spin in a circle but goes back and forth. This project just helped out a ton. Question though... for this particular project (the mini one) did your 30* just happen to work out with the dowel size and the circumference or was there a lot more planning behind the scene? Just asking because it moved smooth!
Thanks for sharing this is interesting and knowledge video, one of my request sir , you please try to make a any free electricity generated project, I think it's possible to -peg gears, used of gravity force , pandulam escapement and etc .
What's your opinion please reply Sir
Amazing inspiring videos Two thumbs up for you, Sir 👍👍
Found the tutorial for making cage/peg gears I was looking for...and then the reciprocating motion! Wow, let's try that instead of a slider crank! There's no variation in speed during the cycle?
Wow. Very ingenious.
You could put a motor on it and attach the arm to your ammunition press with the proper strength and make bullets while you sleep.
I need this for a project. thanks robert!!
Thanks, I want make for an automata idea I have, the arms would be the cams to push up the units
RMS, if we lose the grid, most people will not have the basic understanding to make even these simple devices!
no they wouldn't and they wouldn't even know how to repair the grid this. kind of stuff leads to the basic understanding needed to creat, run and repair all the high tech stuff we rely on - or at least that's what I believe
That was something cool I have not seen before. Ps I understand where you are coming from on 3d printers, but you get bigger ones with bigger nozzles but still takes a while to print.
Great insights as well.
In respect to using a chop/miter saw for cutting a circle: this can be dangerous, but with care once most cuts are made you can rotate the board clockwise, when work piece is on the right of the blade. Quite accurate this way just be careful everyone😉
nice tip mate - cheers
I love your videos and I love your philosophy.
Rob, loving these inspiring video of late. If ever you have a chance, I’d really like to see you think about and put together a DIY Perovskite solar cell! I’ve been very curious about these and have seen a few DIY video about them, but knowing you, you find way to add a graphene twist to them. Lol btw, taking appart my first microwave today to start my vibration generator experiment! Cheers mate!
Excellent Mate!
cheers mate
Robert, what book(s) would you or others recommend to learn more about the peg and cage? Thanks.
Remind Luke about this so he can make a hand crank well.
this is awesome. got advice on making a flywheel by hand?
Fantastic!
507 Mechanical Movements, by Henry T Brown.
I have an extremely dog eared copy. Must be the only book I've got my money's worth out of.
Modern day Leonardo!
or Christoffer Polhem :-)
lol - cheers mate - didn't Leonardo use this mechanism in is ornithopter design?
Phenomenol ! That system could be used to power a hacksaw 🤔
[Norm Abram voice] There is no more important safety rule than to wear safety glasses!
how about don't cut your fingers off? lol
How do you think someone would go use them to make a pedal powered wagon ?
the same way you would use them to make a water wheel - just smaller
Yeay, let's build stuff!
100% lol
You could stick a wind turbine on it,make a little woodsman an that could be his ax,the possibilities are endless
or maybe a Bennett's doubler and make some serious high voltage
Tnx.
no worries mate
Brill Rob! 👍
cheers mate
Can out reverse it? Put a reciprocating motion in and generate a continuous rotational motion?
I suspect you could but you would need a ratchet and pawl I would think
great video!
cheers mate
Fantastic
cheers mate
yes but a rotary table would make them far more accurate and efficiently with out having to add a CNC mill or something,
yes it would mate and that is a nice tip - cheers
okay who read my mind, was gonna say do some leonardo gears.... Awesome.
lol - for sure