You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own ...

This makes them particularly well suited for making gears out of flat stock. [sharvfish] needed to get his hands dirty with producing some gears for his automaton, and decided to share what he ...

The Expert: I’m a freelance home improvement writer ... and strips it away, making it easy to remove. You typically need to soak your rusty gear in a liquid solution for anywhere from 30 minutes ...