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Re: pic: Fun Bevel Gearbox Idea

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
If you have access to a mill, lathe, indexing head, and pedestal grinder of any size, you can actually make your own bevel gears and regular gears to save a little on costs. Look up "how to make a gear hob". If you have a community college in your area, they might have a machine shop you could use.

Nice design for the gearbox. Looks like it can save on valuable horizontal real estate.
It sound like an awesome process to learn about. Unfortunately, my team has never had access to a pedestal grinder.

Of course there's no time like the present! we just got done building a CNC router on a super tight budget, so I feel like we might be able to make something work.
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