Modding Project: Cheapskate's BAD reservoir ideas --#1 done May 25--

Thanks everyone. MMM, nuclear curly fries...

@brinkz0r - I had an idea for your last rig. I'll mention it there.

@Widmod - I guess I could sell it. -if it works... The aluminum one will go on Hypnotoad, but this freak is homeless.
I did PM a mod. I must have angered them somehow.

 

Maybe you need another post...
Nice work there.
Interested to see how this turns out.

 

Interesting work Cheepskate. Keep it up!

 

for attaching gear to shaft use 1/4" plexi and make a small collar for each gear. then use acrylic cement to glue it to gear. drill and thread hole for a tiny set screw.

 

Thanks everyone.
@Talladega - I'm fixing everything so it's free of the shafts and the shafts can spin in the housings too. It will give me lots of play and help avoid parts breakage.

 

i remember the guy who got kicked out of the forums cause he start a mass production of reses that look like tribaloverkills reses...
but you made something new and only one so that's a difference
you just got a copy of that curly plexi things...

i'll be watching this

 

OOOh! cr*p! I forgot to ask the Don's permission!

 

OK, I got Tribal's blessing. In return I have to off Spongebob, -which is far better than whacking him. (Or w****** Spongebob o**)

-There may be a problem caused by my choice of bending guide. The PVC seems to have gotten a little hot... I hope this won't affect the coils much.

-I did a tentacle etch jop on the coils.

-This is the rig I used to do it. The bit is a round head fluted type.

 

lolcats

 

Wow, the notching in the curls look awesome!

 

Thanks EEL.

@Poisonous - That pic goes well with your avatar. What can I say... The stupid knob was in the way of the shot, so why not label it.

 

I got some (very little) work on the gearbox done...

-Here I'm gluing various bits. The edges won't be cleaned up until everythings glued together, so it looks a little blocky right now.

-This should give you a rough idea of the layout.

-I had to come up with a way to fix that crooked cut on the main body, so I built this jig for milling it. What's missing in the pic are the rubber toilet tank shims I jammed under the zip ties before cutting.

I did a little filing on the inside edge of the aluminum tube for reservoir #2. The green tube slides in perfectly! That means I can add windows to the middle of the tube somewhere. Now I just need to get it sanded down and start milling it.

 

wow looking nice

i hope it spins in the end lol

 

OUCH! -Yes. you and me both.
Thanks!

 

Man, that is beautiful work! I can't wait to see this thing, and I certainly hope it spins too. If not, it'll just look like you killed one of those large technicolor Swatch® watches from the 80's.

 

Looking forward to seeing this finished!

 

Man, I wish i was as good as you!!!
How do you have time to do anything else?

 

Thanks everyone. I hope it works too... More than anyone.
@EEL - I never understood why people spent $15 on a guard for those things. -$.05 worth of material... Time is overrated anyway.
@Teknokid - I have lots of free time. Maybe it has something to do with never having a watch. The sun doesn't have much controll over me either.

I just remembered I can't put the gears in before I bore out the intakes.
-Note to self: Remember this!^
You know I'll forget if I don't put it like that.
I also need to work out how I'm going to clean up the ends of the aluminum pipe res.

 

MAN! have I been freaking busy.
I haven't got sh*t done, either. (Not true, I'm repairing a gazebooo.)

-Some new parts. One is to hold the center shaft below the paddlewheel, the others will hold the coils.

-I milled the end of some of the PVC to make an edge guide. Captain Slug is right, PVC machines like butter.
I used this guide to flatten the ends of the coils.

-OOOH! As I feared, the uneven sizes in the tube left me with gears to big to fit. I will need to cut out some of the inside wall so the gears will turn.

-I filed the edges of the risers down. (Edit: Oh, after I glued it in place an glued a stopper for the center shaft on.) The center gear is stuck in there now. It still turns, it just can't come out with the cap over it.

-Here I'm filing the edge of the top shaft holder. (I'm going to regret calling it that here...)
I'm stuck here until I get the intakes made.

-The other reservoir has been moving even slower. I need to clean up the ends of the aluminum.
This may seem like an old and obvious trick, but I will explain it anyway. To figure out a perfect 90 cut on the pipe, I wrapped a piece of paper around it. I made sure the edges on one side lined up with each other and taped them together. I used that edge to mark my cut. That's it...no cutting, I only have some lines drawn.

 

Your problem is actually the tooth profile.
Gears that "drive" -in your case, the center gear- have a different tooth profile than the gears that are driven - the three external ones.

Also, the engagement between the gears becomes exponentially more critical as you try to drive more than one gear off a central pinion.

I build clock movements (hence the nick) and know whereof I speak.