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quad-ellipse gears

Created by
stickoutrock
Created on Nov 29, 2009
Featured on Nov 29, 2009

Inspiration from "Oval Gears" by Billion.
Wanted to expand model to 4 gears and discovered that the linkage had to flex - square to parallelogram during rotation.
All elliptical gears here are identical and work due to odd number of teeth.

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quad-ellipse gears by stickoutrock is licensed under the Public Domain license.

© 2009 by stickoutrock

Instructions

Cut 8 washers, 4 linkages and 4 gears. I used 5mm dowels for axles so size holes according to the dowels you use. Washers need to be glued to ends of axles.

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