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Making wooden gears out of plywood

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Gear 1 teeth: Number of teeth on gear to render for gear. Controls left gear when showing two gears. Enter negative value for ring gears. Rack&Pinion: Change gear 1 to a linear gear (rack). You can also make the other gear a rack by entering "0" for the tooth count. Measured cal distance (mm): After printing a test page, measure the distance between the lines marked "this should be 150 mm". If it's not 150 mm, enter the value in this field to compensate for printer scaling. The next printout should be the correct size. Gear 2 teeth: Number of teeth for the gear on the right, if rendered. The checkbox controls whether one or two gears are rendered. Two gears: When printing templates, it helps to have just one gear shown. Spokes: Show the gear with spokes. Spokes are only shown for gears with 16 or more teeth. Show rotated: Rotate the gears shown slightly. Useful for checking the fit of gears at different angles when showing two gears on the screen. Use values 0 to 100 to indicate percen

Help / how to use it / about This free online gear template generator is designed for making scale accurate paper gear templates which you can glue onto wood and then cut out with a bandsaw. I recommend printing the gears with an ink jet printer. Even cheap ink jet printers print very scale accurate but not all laser printers are accurate. Legend (What do the fields above mean?) Tooth spacing Number of millimeters from one tooth to the next, along the pitch diameter. Gear 1 teeth: Number of teeth on gear to render for gear. Controls left gear when showing two gears. Enter negative…

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