Making organic gears - GIF

Making organic gears. Not the single most useful technique, but still interesting. That's "organic" as opposed to "geometric".

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1633#post74805
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2482#post45335
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4358#post79804
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...7842#post86354
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8594#post87797

Jon,

It now makes sense but would not have tried this until seeing the video.

Thanks, Paul Jones

This is what makes kids want to be engineers but I would hate to do the math.

I would call these conjugate gears. They are similar to conjugate cams. Interesting for kinetic art.

Nautilus gears.

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