Recent content by Mechanism Man

Hi folks, I've not been lurking around here for a long time, but just thought I'd share a photo of a Harry Potter themed wall plaque I made for my daughters birthday back in April. I've spent thousands of hours in front of my scroll saw over the last 15 years or so, but never done anything...

That's a bit genius and clever! It never ceases to amaze me the things you can do with the humble gear. Is this your own design or something you've stumbled upon? Either way it works beautifully. This is very much greater than the sum of its parts. Bravo that man! :-)

Oh yes - that fella is in a whole other league to my wooden efforts. He is done kind of God-like being me thinks!

Hi AES, Yes, the commissions are for copies of this first machine - four of them at the last count... That means around 40 frames, 228 hand cut gears, countless axles, pointers, displays other numerous bits and bobs - and do you know what? I can't wait! This particular project I've been mulling...

Hi everyone, Well since my image hosting site Photobucket suddenly started wanting $499 per year to store the photos I use on this and other forums they have all stopped working - sorry. Sooo, below is a link to my Pintrest page where you will find several photos of my now FINISHED machine! It's...

Good find! Though I'd also put the wind mill behind him rather than in front so that he doesn't appear to be flying towards certain doom at the hands of the renewable energy wind farm folk!

Happy new year to you too. I'm hoping that it'll bring more workshop time than 2016! And yes - as I said before, build a clock, you'll never look back! All the best, Dave.

Thank you both, but my work is definately not the best here - there is some stunning work being shown, however, thanks for the compliment! In truth, I've used a top end Hegner a couple of times and I have to admit they are very nice - very orange too, which is nice. Was it better than my...

Wow - thanks everybody - I think that I'm possibly blushing... As I've probably said before, my only real attribute is patience, and the ability to cut out a reasonably accurate shape - and a lot of you out there appear to be much better scrollers than me. So I guess that all I've done that...

Oh yes - as soon as it's done I'll post a video of it doing it's thing. Can't wait!

Not finished by a long shot - but it's now in more or less one piece and it works! Happiness is 57 spinning wooden gears. Almost ready to start predicting an eclipse or two!

Finding spare time is always a problem, but most of the main gear box gearing is now finally fitted and working. Next job is to fix the gearing to the shafts to prevent slippage, and then it's on to fitting the second frame (which is also the front of the machine) to properly locate the other...

Sorry all - been away for a little while and have had way too much to do to look at the forum. Hi Bugbear - hmm, yes, 'Marvellous re-implimentation' - I'll take that - thank you! There are several working replicas in museums around the world, but none yet that have the full planet pointer...

All gears cut and varnished - let assembly begin!

Hello all, I've not been bombarding the board with posts recently as I haven't wanted to bore you good people stupid. It's still not finished, but after several months of quietly beavering away whenever I could steal the odd 10 minutes I've finally cut the last tooth of the last gear wheel -...