Gears and Crankshaft Movement MASTER CLASS

Inkscape has an excellent gear wheel maker - just give the number of teeth and hole diameter and that’s it! I’m away at the moment so I can’t show you - I’ll get back later

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It took less than 2 minutes to make these - note all the gears mesh!

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And here they are in use on one of my early watchfaces

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Playing around with the Wankel shape… not sure what to do with it yet…

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I miss my '87 RX-7 Turbo II, I never should have sold it…

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128 Hp Rear wheel drive . Whhat Fun . Did the rotary engines not have Seal issues ?

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The engine was sound… it was the cooling system that continuously bled my wallet dry. As young man back then, i just didn’t have the money to maintain and fix it.

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Yeah . Funny how the Reciprocating Engine has lasted since the first steam engine . They still use them on Motorbikes Yes ?

Still having fun with gears. I stumbled acorss this neat setup, so trying it out.
Basically combines gear setup used before and the 1 second timer from another thread where we are trying to cope without having the DWE tag
WIP… and open for inspection:

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