With knobs on

[Pete Maddex]

Hi Chaps

I finally decided to get the lathe out of the shed clean it up and make some new knobs for my spokeshave.
I was given this lathe, its missing its change gears unfortunately.
It needed a start capacitor to get it going and a good clean up.

Axminister BV20M by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

This is the spokeshave with some Ebay knobs.

Rosewood spokeshave by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

And here it is with the ones I made.

Rosewood spokeshave by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Did a bit of messing round making shavings, facing off bits of bar modifying the vacuum take-off adaptors for my carburettor balancer etc.

Pete

 

[novocaine]

Time to learn gear cutting?

 

[Pete Maddex]

I have been watching some gear cutting videos on youtube...


Pete

 

[Woodster]

Time to learn gear cutting?

Gear cutting or hobbing, is more commonly done on a Mill.

 

[novocaine]

:eusa-clap:

Time to learn gear cutting?

Gear cutting or hobbing, is more commonly done on a Mill.

Thats not to say you cant cut gears on a lathe and in fact is the way it was done before mills existed.

Helical gears jave to be on a lathe (i seem to remember but ita been a while).

 

[Woodster]

:eusa-clap:

Time to learn gear cutting?

Gear cutting or hobbing, is more commonly done on a Mill.

Thats not to say you cant cut gears on a lathe and in fact is the way it was done before mills existed.

Helical gears jave to be on a lathe (i seem to remember but ita been a while).

Not impossible (like other jobs not intended for the lathe) but a darn sight more difficult!

Where on earth did you get that notion about helical gears? These days they are done on multi axis machines but prior to that vertical and horizontal mills were used. Lots of examples on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/oiBU7yxkpzc