I built a mechanical goose and it mostly worked

[@GraniteValleyDave]

Amazing project, and I loved your storytelling! I've always said "clockwise lockwise" which is very stupid, but I despise the usual saying. I'll definitely be using your right hand rule trick.

[@wallywutsizface6346]

I’ve always jokingly said “clockwisey tighty counterclockwisey loosey”. Times getting tight is such a nicer way of putting that lol

[@smellsofbikes]

The snippet with the sledgehammer, popping the wings loose: that's some very serious art going on. Really nice work!

[@hedgehog3180]

Using the right hand rule is genuinely genius.

[@nonyabissniss7526]

Love your tangent; in German, we call it „im Uhrzeigersinn“ literally „like the clocks mind“ or and „gegen den Uhrzeigersinn“ meaning „against the clocks mind“

[@dantesmith3664]

That's pretty cool. very nicely done

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

As a kid, I decided to build a submarine model (rubberband motor propelled). My choice of material was.. a wooden log. Like, an actual solid log of wood almost my own height. I cut a roughly-submarine shape out of it with an axe and I barely had enough strength to lift it. Naturally, it had a crazy amount of buoyancy that I had to compensate by strapping an even crazier amount of lead weights to it. Naturally, to propel so much weight I had to use a straight up bicycle tire as a rubberband for the motor. Man, if I had the tools and materials back then, I'd also go for straight up 2cm sheet metal builds too.

[@Gobhoblin126]

Almost all of the chain drives I've ever seen in machinery have a spring loaded tensioner in them. I think with that length of chain it wont take much wear for the chain to start jumping. Also totally agree with you on the thread direction mnemonic, but I always just memorised it and then had to think twice when reaching around behind a bolt.

[@solarbirdyz]

I kinda want it to randomly poop ball bearings xD

[@DanielSimu]

Wonderful project! Thanks so much for sharing the process :)

[@Cartocopia]

Not sure if you have a mag drill? I've drilled clean holes in large pipes using a mag drill stuck to an I-beam strapped (or tacked) to the pipe, before.

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

man, you really like chunky builds

[@thecountingthot7638]

what if you have a collet block of, say, size 7, holding a collet block vice of size 6, wouldn't that give you an indexing of 42? Of course, errors compound, and I'm not sure fitting a vice in a collet block would end up too large... But maybe worth a try! Cool project, by the way! Always love your hyperfixation on weird machinery

[@coastalgeorgia6558]

good job man

[@mister_i9245]

Nice!

[@0hellow797]

We need a rhyming pneumonic!

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

if it was 10x flimsier, it'd still be overbuilt.