I have uploaded my Python script to github: github.com/Matthias-Wandel/lathe-thread-gears
@aduck19826 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@StefanGotteswinter7 ай бұрын
LOL - at this point you are sending machinists to hospital with a major headache.
@briantaylor92667 ай бұрын
Get Matthias to do a spreadsheet for your Maximat!
@moehoward017 ай бұрын
Not just machinists.
@xl0007 ай бұрын
Why ? Because he wrote a few for loops that tested all the possible combinations of gears and found better ones ? Which part is supposed to give a headache ?
@travisfinucane7 ай бұрын
@@xl000 I think because machinists hate dead trees.
@briantaylor92667 ай бұрын
@@xl000 Dude! Lighten up! Stefan was joking around.
@AzureFlash7 ай бұрын
I'm hyped for the era of Metal Matthias, considering all he can do with wood alone, with metal he'll be unstoppable
@matthiaswandel7 ай бұрын
Naww. I look at stuff machinists make, and I often think "I could have made that way faster out of wood!"
@jarodmorris6117 ай бұрын
@@matthiaswandel Don't we overestimate what products need to be made from metal? Your videos have shown that often times something made from wood is plenty strong for its intended purpose.
@adhawk56327 ай бұрын
Not! You wood workers are 1 Inch 😊spec. Good luck. Don't buy vevor, unless it's free👎😢
@leifhietala80747 ай бұрын
The new Pen Shaking Device will double as a melee weapon of heretofore unanticipated lethality.
@ofiasdfnosdf7 ай бұрын
3D printed metal!
@gedtoon64517 ай бұрын
This video had maths, spreadsheets, Python programming, gear design, wooden gear making and a lathe cutting threads. What more could you want. Brilliant video! I found the part with the wooden gears fitted in the lathe particularly amusing.
@clarkdouglas65176 ай бұрын
Face it, Mathias is a national treasure.
@LordPhobos65026 ай бұрын
Those wooden gears are giving me 'it's stupid but it works' vibes... And if it's stupid, but it works (safely!), then it's not stupid ❤
@bunkie21007 ай бұрын
Common Internet Wisdom: Replace plastic gears with metal. Matthias: Make gears out of wood.
@bami27 ай бұрын
Channel isn't named "woodgears" for nothing.
@profile57 ай бұрын
I was hoping he would make wood gears for this
@JDeWittDIY7 ай бұрын
A benefit of plastic gears is if something jams the gear fails but the rest of the machine is undamaged. This is the idea behind shear pins, etc. You have known failure points on purpose.
@bunkie21007 ай бұрын
@@JDeWittDIY- It must be noted that I did say "Common Internet Wisdom". ;-)
@MCsCreations7 ай бұрын
He didn't put a wooden gear into a rc car... Yet.
@4G63Tpower7 ай бұрын
I’m glad Vervor came to their senses and hired you to calculate the new values.
@aserta7 ай бұрын
I've made gears (when i was a teen and didn't have a proper lathe) with baltic ply (i think it was 15 layers) and here's the kicker. If you lightly score the faces of the teeth with a thin saw, then dip the gear in thin (model making) cyanoacrylate, they'll last even longer than plastic gears, which are widely used. You can achieve good precision across the teeth if you make a jig sander using a dulled file and ball bearing rollers set in a V. It will cut only as deep as the face of the tooth. Had perfect threads cut with that lathe. Proper thread against my thread, perfect mesh. I never "hardened" the key hole, because i was afraid it was too strong, stronger than a plastic gear (for sure) so i just left that natural ply on purpose. I had to re-key the gear maybe... 5 times total in 4 years. Wood gears? 100% plausible and highly recommended. Cheaper and your determination to get them proper is the factor at play. I used Tamiya superglue, but any thin superglue (read cheap, because it's thinned out) will work.
@MazeFrame7 ай бұрын
"The gear chart was bad so I made a new one" would have made for a good video title too. Impressive work!
@tissuepaper99626 ай бұрын
If by "good" you mean annoying and sensational, then sure. The title and thumbnail game is the absolute worst part of modern KZbin, bring back descriptive titles and simple thumbnails. Down with the algorithm.
@tcl58536 ай бұрын
Vevor hit the jackpot with you. Whatever they paid you to correct their mistakes is a bargain for them. Apparently they don’t have access to people of your caliber within reach
@PraxZimmerman7 ай бұрын
"Just takes a little bit of programing" is the worst thing a woodworker can hear
@stephanroth15877 ай бұрын
... but makers love.
@thefekete7 ай бұрын
Experienced programmers also wince at that a bit😬
@MrWolfheat7 ай бұрын
To be fair the programming of this is the easy part.
@bastian18477 ай бұрын
Matthias, I love that you are literally helping companies improve their products.
@michaeljohn73987 ай бұрын
Matthias, I did my time as an Apprentice Fitter Machinist, Tool Maker and Welder. The highest of compliments to you for your continued outstanding work. You are without peer as a Polymath in all you tackle. Bloody well done Mate 😁. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
@mattpinto23517 ай бұрын
The amount of work you put into this is incredible. As a machinist, the only way I could threads that match in this situation is to make everything custom. If you produce a nut and a bolt on the same machine, tools, and gear ratios, they would both not match the chart, but at least they would match each other.
@rickharriss7 ай бұрын
Until the nut or bolt is lost with your 10mm socket. Then you’re stuffed because you can’t go buy another.
@arminbuch93867 ай бұрын
So great to see you using the old gear program and cutting wooden gears again! Back to the roots :)
@nickkk4207 ай бұрын
Matthias, your intelligent, diligence and continued adaptability has made you one of my favourite KZbin's, been warching you for at least a decade now, great work as always brother
@txkflier7 ай бұрын
I could actually see the gears turning in your head on this one. I went through this exercise about 15 years ago when I bought a mini-lathe from Harbor Freight. Thanks for the memories.. 😎
@bami27 ай бұрын
Has all metal lathe, slowly starts replacing parts with wood. Matthias you absolute madman, I love it. You should adjust your program so it excludes combinations where certain size gears are in positions that prevent the gearbox from closing.
@sdspivey7 ай бұрын
That's only for the Nervous Nellys. Run with it open.
@jarodmorris6117 ай бұрын
@@sdspivey But if he's making the gear ratio table for Vevor, as a manufacturer, they have to consider whether the protective cover is on or off.
@victorhopper67747 ай бұрын
@@jarodmorris611 they should be nervous, next up a laser lathe with infinite speed control and no torque needed. made by Wandel anti-gravity Works for 59.95. why not
@coltergiest7 ай бұрын
@@jarodmorris611they could also consider an oversized gear cover to allow for larger gear sets.
@hermanni19897 ай бұрын
He allready made wooden planer and bandsaw. Just wait few years and hell make video about wooden metal lathe and he's selling the plans on his website.
@marcoschwanenberger31277 ай бұрын
Amazing! I - and a ton of other machinists - would definitely buy a Matthias Wandel Gear-ratio calculator program! "Just" add a UI like you've done with the gear generator or bigprint? The need for that is definitely there! I am in a German hobby-machinists Forum and this question after a program that can do that came up quite often in the past years. It would certainly be very helpful!
@BigEightiesNewWave7 ай бұрын
I love his thought process whilst tearing down and testing products. One of a kind.
@PotentiallyAndy7 ай бұрын
So this is like the old phrase “is the glass half empty or half full” The engineers state it was made to the wrong specifications… Matthias says “it’s wrong, but for a few I’ll make you a new glass that is correct” Love it !!
@RobertMilesAI7 ай бұрын
Now here's an interesting optimisation problem: If you can make your own gears of any size, which ones would be best? I.e. what's the set of n gears that gives you the best overall accuracy at your target pitches? Then graph out how accuracy improves as n increases, and pick the smallest with acceptable error. The computation starts to get *big* as n grows though, might need some real cleverness to make it efficient
@RickRolling-tc7vb7 ай бұрын
Neat! Thanks Matthias, you make it look easy and I'm sure it's not. The real value is how you show us what's possible, and from that we can derive ourown inspiration. Great stuff.
@josuelservin7 ай бұрын
One thing I love about this channel is that Matthias looks at a problem that we often just throw money at and solves it faster and cheaper with data and wood.
@TheDevnul7 ай бұрын
What ever Vevor is paying you, it’s not enough! Talk about above and beyond.
@prbmax7 ай бұрын
Apartment dweller here. No wood working tools, no metal working tools, no space but still enjoyed. You seem to be gifted with many talents. Thanks.
@matthiaswandel7 ай бұрын
That lathe could fit in an apartment easily. Of course, you need some other tools too. But if you have a spare bedroom, that could be a small machine shop!
@jonnydont7 ай бұрын
@@matthiaswandel Original NYCCNC style
@druidetrebor7 ай бұрын
@@matthiaswandel Works only if he has no wife or girlfriend or doesn't mind loosing either/both.
@gorinator7 ай бұрын
@@matthiaswandelNo spare rooms in my apartment unfortunately. Can your lathe be mounted vertically to decrease the required floor space? Maybe bolted to the wall in the shower for easy cleanup.
@mlindholm7 ай бұрын
that's where I ran mine when I first got it, I just laid down drop cloths and hung some around me to catch flying swarf and keep it out of the carpet.
@xl0007 ай бұрын
One related and interesting problem would be to either propose a set of gears that would have a better precision than what they provide, or propose a few additional gears that would dramatically increase the precision of the initial set. It can easily be brute forced, given the low numbers of gears. And that way, Vevor can also provide and small hardware upgrade in addition for the revised table.
@larrybud7 ай бұрын
Yeah, some logic in his program to determine which gears could be used to cover the most combinations would be helpful.
@randomreviews75746 ай бұрын
so much fun and very interesting to watch -- Note to tool manufactures be wary what you print bc there is a guy named Matthias that could end up doing a youtube video and prove your instructions are wrong. From measuring the curvature of lenses to mini lathe thread cutter ratios.. THIS IS THE ONLY CHANNEL I ACTUALLY LOOK FORWARD TO NEW VIDEOS.
@kuglepen647 ай бұрын
You forgot to put the key in the chuck :-D
@jinto_reedwine7 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@eh427 ай бұрын
The wood gears in the thread section of a metal lathe is probably more than enough to fertilize the rage farm - LOL!
@nxsmotorsports7 ай бұрын
I wish you were my friend and we could hang out. Your persistence and resilience, combined with your "I'm not done yet, it could be better" methodological approach is inspiring. Thanks for sharing so much of your time and information.
@mlindholm7 ай бұрын
You didn't mention this point, so I will. Within a certain tolerance, screw thread parts that mesh without binding will accept some intolerance and work fine if they are used for clamping loads. Where the error wouldn't be acceptable would be when the error compounds over length, such as your jigs that use 16TPI threaded rod to advance a particular interval per turn, so you'd be advancing more (or less) than 1 inch per 16 turns. But if the threaded interface will be static once assembled, perhaps even locktited, then a small percentage error is irrelevant if they fully mesh without either binding or excessive slop.
@netroy7 ай бұрын
feeling envious of your gears stash. that's some decades worth of collecting 😍
@xl0007 ай бұрын
For those who like this, you should watch the Screw advance box joint jig videos, there is also some calculation on how to choose the gears from a set to move the jig from a certain distance.
@Keasbeysknight7 ай бұрын
if i was looking into a mini lathe, id totally get this just because they are willing to work with you and improve what they go and are outsourcing this support. very smart of them in my book.
@jefferylebowski73557 ай бұрын
I've discovered that is true in other areas too: raspberry pi's, and lenovo(formerly IBM) thinkpads because of all the smart people hacking on them
@ichliebekuchen17 ай бұрын
You are the man showing everybody, that you do not have to have some fancy tools to make stuff work. Matthias Wangel, you are my spirit animal
@TKC_7 ай бұрын
This reminds me of the time I wrote a program to mod my brown and sharp 0 dividing head to approximate a 127 tooth gear by adding more gearing that I could cut to its input. If I recall correctly the issue is that 127 is a large prime number where the dividing head is a 40:1 worm reducer. It was really a neat problem to minimize that error in tooth spacing while rotating the blank for the cutter. I struggled to make the program efficient enough but got there.
@first_namelast_name49237 ай бұрын
You could also use a wheel with angle markings and align the indexing pin to the precise value in degrees. Any error you make here with manual adjustment is reduced by a factor of 40 (because of the ratio of the worm reducer), which is pretty neat.
@TKC_7 ай бұрын
@@first_namelast_name4923 yea so I never ended up doing it that way even through I did the math because I ended up installing a dro on the mill which makes something similar to what you suggest the easiest solution. If every tooth is spaced 127/360 deg. Multiply that x 40 and all you have to do is drill 127 holes 14.11 deg apart in a circle/series of concentric circles. To make a custom dividing plate. That just becomes a lot of holes to drill and coordinates to follow but not a hard task.
@MrDeakle937 ай бұрын
I’d pay good money or perhaps a “small fee” to just spend a few hours in Matthias’ mind. Your thought process and execution of said process are mind blowing.
@nickbk44186 ай бұрын
This dude is an absolute wizard. A special mind for sure. I’m a mechanical engineer and I feel like a gorilla compared to this dude lol
@jaapweel17 ай бұрын
glad to hear vevor is interested in improving their product, at least in cases where it doesn't increase long run per-unit cost.
@markashlock90177 ай бұрын
Well dang! So far over my head. I’m just glad there are really smart people like you I can turn too, to do the heavy lifting. Thanks!!!
@killasammich69037 ай бұрын
You are doing such important work here Matthias. I have been wanting to get a lathe for cutting small screws for my repair shop, and most vehicles are metric pitch nowadays anyhow, but I could never get a solid answer to if a cheap lathe like Vevors would actually cut ALL the metirc threads I need. I sincerely hope Vevor follows through and updates their thread pitch table, and I will likely buy the lathe along with the extra gear set.
@1pcfred7 ай бұрын
Thread tables on lathes being wrong seems to be fairly common. Adam Savage had the same problem with his lathe.
@onesixfive7 ай бұрын
This is peak Matthias content
@noobhunter30007 ай бұрын
Matthias had to buy a metal lathe to finally bring us WOODGEARS-content back again ;)
@johnfithian-franks82767 ай бұрын
Hi I bought your gear cutter programme when it first came out and still use it today
@cest73437 ай бұрын
Now, this is the quality of content Matthias has got us used to 👍👍👍👍👍
@eric13hill7 ай бұрын
I love how you think. Your videos are so satisfying.
@Spamlure7 ай бұрын
I get a kick out of the users who get these Vevor lathes fine tuned. Very inspiring. Well done once again, Matthias!
@UtahDarkHorse7 ай бұрын
You're a frickin' genius! Thanks for another awesome video.
@MCsCreations7 ай бұрын
Brilliant, Matthias! Fantastic work! 😃 I guess it's time to discover how to make metal gears! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
@mahmoudomara54217 ай бұрын
I like how you simplify machining work
@Whereswally6067 ай бұрын
ha ha ha, absolutely love how hard Matthias goes geeking out on gears especially when there is error in the product sold.
@first_namelast_name49237 ай бұрын
Fantastic video Matthias. Now you could pitch (pin intended) another idea to Vevor. Working out what gear tooth numbers wheels they have to provide in a set that is optimized for the minimalist number of wheels to get a set of metric and imperial pitches most often used in industry. And what gears to include in a de-luxe set. The very first thing you have to work out is what is the pitch of the screw for advancing the support. If you have a metric screw you can get all standard thread pitches bang-on with a relatively small number of wheels. With a 127 tooth wheel you can convert it to an imperial pitch.
@johnnicol50097 ай бұрын
I had no idea about the gears and ratios for thread pitches. Now I do. Thanks for explaining this Matthias!
@crazygoatemonky7 ай бұрын
There's lots of interesting extensions to this problem. Calculating the best gear or gears you need to make to minimize the error for a precision part. Calculate which of your gears make the least difference to your precision so you could give them to a friend who doesn't have enough gears, or calculate the best subdivision between your shared gears so that you both have the best accuracy possible. Very satisfying intersection of math and practicality
@drsquirrel007 ай бұрын
Seems like Vevor should update their default set of gears - and have the extra set be complementary so there aren't so many duplicates.
@WesBos7 ай бұрын
programmer makes calculator out of wood
@blobscott7 ай бұрын
I've had good luck 3D printing involute gears of any size/pitch/modulus. I have an old small Atlas lathe (not currently running), but I think for light lathe work, solid plastic printed gears could manage the torque. Matthias, if you want any odd sizes, I'd be happy to print and send to you. Using CAD, the whole design with center-hole and keyway is fairly trivial. It would be interesting to see how the printed gears would manage and I'd be happy to donate them towards the effort. The wooden gears are pretty cool though!
@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT7 ай бұрын
Owners of minilathes should watch this video - I did 🙂 Good effort, Matthias!
@jrb_sland7 ай бұрын
04:20 How do you know that your test coupler is threaded error-free? If your little lathe has errors in its table, how many other lathes might have "sloppy" fits? Asking for a friend... I too have used spreadsheets to do high accuracy computations from the known integer gear values - great fun! Back in the early 1970s I was attempting to retrofit a 1954 "Simplex XL" brand 35 mm movie projector whose nameplate stated explicitly that the driveshaft needed to turn at 1764 RPM! After much hair-tearing, I finally realized that the projector manufacturer had been EXTREMELY clever, because most ordinary 60Hz 4-pole single-phase AC induction motors loaded at ~50% of their full power rating will run at or slightly above ~ 1750 RPM, and by using a 49:50 gear ratio somewhere INSIDE the projector it would run very close to exact speed. 1764 = 9*7*7*2*2, and 1800 = 9*5*5*2*2*2. I wanted to drive the projector in perfect interlock with other film-handling audio equipment that was driven from 60 Hz line-frequency 4-pole synchronous motors @ 1800 RPM and/or wound-rotor 3-phase interlock (selsyn) motors @ 1200 RPM, so I found some tooth-belt pulleys & belts at a local vendor to set up the simple 1800:1200 = 60:40 and the more difficult 49:50 = 98:100. This required an intermediate jack-shaft, but that was the easy part...
@matthiaswandel7 ай бұрын
The couplers are cut with a tap, so likely to be correct. Threaded rods and long bolts are rolled from one end to the other, so thy are often a little bit off.
@jameshicks67536 ай бұрын
Nice study, I had no idea there was so much variation with the supplied gears, Thanks much
@jman517 ай бұрын
With your love of stepper motors, I see an “electronic lead screw” in your future.
@jimsmith62847 ай бұрын
This another reason I always learn something from Matthias video's thanks.
@DuckPerc7 ай бұрын
This is awesome! The perfect way to approach this problem, and a very interesting problem to approach!
@teejmiller7 ай бұрын
Of course you would make wooden gears for a metal lathe. I love it. I can't wait for version 2.0 with helical plywood gears :)
@RobsWorldWV7 ай бұрын
Looks like they hired the right man for the job.
@leifhietala80747 ай бұрын
in order for the 1.0% error of the 16TPI threads to become a serious issue, you'd need to thread on more than, at a guess, 25 threads. The threading in commercially-available nuts isn't fabulous to begin with and at 25 threads - 1-1/2" of threaded length - you'd still only be off by 1/4 of a thread with sufficient slop in the engagement for it to not matter.
@waynenocton7 ай бұрын
You never cease to amaze me
@2testtest27 ай бұрын
I have to say I'm quite impressed that Vevor both managed to put that bad of a table on their lathes, and are willing to pay a youtuber to make them a better one 😂. That said, if you ever grow tired of making wood gears, 3d-printed gears work great as change-gears for these mini-lathes, I have made a whole stack of them for mine. They are a bit more noisy, but they hold very well.
@brentschuler27957 ай бұрын
Haven’t wrote a program in years except starting to tinker with arduino now and my lathe comes in handy with mechanical bits 😊
@alnwlsn7 ай бұрын
I've been down this path with 3D printed lathe gears, which work surprisingly well and you can make even a 127 tooth gear with teeth small enough so that it will still fit under the cover. But I based my calculations on the stock gear ratio sticker on the machine - I would not have guessed it could have as much error as what you have found. Although, as long as the threads are close enough I suppose it doesn't matter.
@deadmantalkin75057 ай бұрын
If you don't have a copy of Machinery's Handbook by Eric Oberg yet I would recommend it. That book is the Bible to Machinists, and most things like gear ratios, and pretty much everything machining. If you can find one of the early editions they go into a lot more detail on processes of manual machines than the newer versions, and if you do get one try to find a guide book for that edition too. I love watching your channel and am looking forward to your further path into metalwork.
@OldSneelock7 ай бұрын
Excellent work Matthias. Given the ability to make gears and if necessary swap out lead screws the lathe can make an infinite number of thread pitches. Until SAE began standardizing threads nearly any thread was proprietary just because the person who needed a thread made one to match their ability and or equipment. I repair antique tools from the 1800's on up with only the occasional one having anything close to standard thread sizes. Just knowing how to juggle the gear ratios is invaluable. P.S. Wood gears will suffice for a few threads. Most of the time they will outlast the need for them. If they wear out, making new ones isn't difficult. Thanks for the inspiration.
@matthiaswandel7 ай бұрын
So far I have never had any wooden gears wear out. These the plywood was bit thin, with thicker plywood, I could make a pair that outlasts the lathe.
@galhillel1007 ай бұрын
Love the way you explained. Most videos are apologetic for dividing in to numbers but that’s great if you follow along
@BethKjos7 ай бұрын
Slightly inaccurate pitch means that the torque is disproportionately held by one end of the threads, meaning fastener fail at lesser load than they should. Well-matched thread pitch means the interactions are properly balanced throughout the interface between male and female parts. Which may apply to more than just machining.
@curtpelischek5 ай бұрын
This video is incredibly nerdy…but I love it. Matthias this one was great!
@andersstromqvist22117 ай бұрын
Of course not every one have a 3d printer but 3d printed gears work very well for this application.
@crackyflipside7 ай бұрын
Love the analysis and improvements.
@AlejoMX57 ай бұрын
Dude. Your mind works in such a unique way! Holy cow.
@Vyker7 ай бұрын
Honestly this guy is a treasure!! Love it!
@lohikarhu7347 ай бұрын
Mathias...i'm working on a system using bicycle sprockets, instead of gears, because you an get them in almost any number of teeth, and they can be "stacked" up to 12 or more on a shaft, and the sprockets can slide in a splined shaft, allowing almost any 'mix' of ratios, just sliding the stack of sprockets, if needed, and moving the chain between selected sets. For converting a metric drive to inch, 13 to 33 tooth gives a conversion to 0.06%...anyway, this was to drive the compound on my watchmaker's lathe, since it has no carriage drive. Otherwise, i guess i go with 600 pulse encoder and stepper motor on the compound drive...
@Lizlodude7 ай бұрын
I'm glad Vevor ended up having you update the table after all, that was definitely the worst thing from the review IMO. I was also surprised at how much error you can have in the thread before it causes a problem. Would have been interesting to see the 15% error one as well heh
@jjanderson19877 ай бұрын
You've started the journey of building a metal lathe out of wood. I look forward to watching this.
@jvmiller19957 ай бұрын
Have you tried 3d printing a gear. I know a lot of cheap lathes have plastic gears. I bet they would hold up. You might even be able to sell the print files to vevor owners. I have always wanted a mini lathe. I took machine tooling in machine shop. Also most the time single tool threads you cut relief at the end of the thread. Then you start the tread on the same number while running the feed and disengage when you hit the relief and you never need to turn off the lathe between the passes.. Some threads you can go on any number and some on opposing numbers but if you start the feed on the same number every time you will never miss. I love metal turning it is so relaxing. I seen You have been playing with it a while. Overall is it worth the money?
@BrandCJC7 ай бұрын
Matthias, you would consider either adding or selling your gear combination script on your site? I myself have been gifted with an old 1930's lathe with gears, the plate is almost unreadable and some gears are missing. It would be nice to have some place to refrence the combinations that can be made with wat I (we the internet people) have on hand, with out reinventing the script Great video thx, I always enjoy
@MRrwmac7 ай бұрын
Matthias, as usual…Amazing!!
@EngineerMikeF7 ай бұрын
Assuming they update the table & deal with the gear sets available, kudos to Vevor for paying for the service rather than just trucking on selling junk machining advice
@MrWolfheat7 ай бұрын
@ MatthiasWandel You should have added a calculation of what gear (of any possible) added to the system would bring the errors down the most. Also calculating how long the threading of a bolt can have before the error becomes a problem. Make it a todo for next video. Any way, Good work.
@ProDMiner7 ай бұрын
matthias, its been awhile since ive seen some vids here. TYSM for the link to this lathe, they also sell in USA, and its like $600 bucks dude for it thats a hell of a deal! would be able to make custom screams, and pulleys stuff like that for chain saws, and other machines I want to make. sometimes, I do not have any money , and there is stuff that I wanna make, but need metal parts just no lathe to make certain metal parts. I also work at a junk yard, and got a brake drum blower forge the other day!
@jestempies7 ай бұрын
I think the final step would be to have a program you give a list of thread pitches to, and it calculates the smallest set of gears that supports that list of pitches to within a pre-determined error.
@PJSproductions976 ай бұрын
It's been a hot minute since we've seen the good ol' gear generator program. Always nice to see it
@SamuQu7 ай бұрын
5:55 "But I can make Wooden Gears" Cue Peter Griffin giggling at the cinema
@ArthurCheesebag847 ай бұрын
You always impress me but my jaw actually dropped at the end. That is way less error. Python skillshare class is my new weekend plan.
@Smallathe7 ай бұрын
Very cool. Loved the new wooden gear :) I'll 3D print my gears... err... oops... no gears for the unimat (and PLA pulleys fail, don't ask me how I know ;)
@winter-survivor7 ай бұрын
"Now NASA comes". (A common expression in Brazil to tell someone made something crazy ingenuous)
@benoitvannoten51137 ай бұрын
In the machines you make you usually use a key to link gears to axle. Although, some times it is useful to have a left hand thread to make this link, ensuring an auto-tightening (like on a table saw arbor). Is it possible with this lathe (one gear less [or more] and center distance) and with what pitches? I understand left hand threads are rarely used and when needed one could make that one-off calculation but you probably could adapt your software easily ;-)
@jefferylebowski73557 ай бұрын
I am guessing the result he will send to Vevor is: "here is the table for the optimal combinations with the supplied gears and their errors. But also here are some tables if you decided to slightly change the gears you provide, that greatly reduces the amount of error". I would not be surprised if he comes up with a set of gears that accomplish all the thread pitches, with better accuracy, and FEWER gears :) ie better product and reduced cost
@DanielConstantinoS7 ай бұрын
My dream is one day Mathias and This Old Tonny would be neighbours. This would be more awesome than the final avengers assemble.
@MadHatter7647 ай бұрын
Matthias pulls out a gears drawer, and this one is full of metal gears.
@white_truck38207 ай бұрын
Great video. Very interesting. Did you recommend to Vevor that they include more gears with the mini lathe? Did you ever find out why their thread cutting table was so off? Did they offer an explanation?