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You know we are all machinist types with mills (at least some do) who maybe could/should make our own gears?
Just saying.........
Steve
You are so right Steve!!
If I were a few years younger and in better health I would be right in there trying to do it. I am late in life to start doing metal work and my health has become a very limiting factor. This project was intended to get started working with my new mill without having the physical exertion that lifting the head was requiring on my poor old broken down body.
3 or 4 years ago I started making some specialty tools that are specific to working on the old Harley Ironheads. I now have 11 tools that I can make and hope to add a few more with the addition of the PM25. I am laying out my designs with TurboCad 3D and refining the designs with actually making a few of each on my 70 year old Craftsman lathe and now the new mill. My hope is that I will have enough in place that one day my son or one of my Grandkids will be able to take my work and build it into a business after I am gone.
There are so many possibilities that these machines can bring to reality, and I wish that my remaining time would allow me to learn more, but for now I am concentrating on just what I need in the here and now. I am so appreciative for friends like you and others here on this forum that continue to share ideas and a creative passion that so many in today's society are missing. I have always been a DIY guy and I remember many years ago interviewing for a job as a R&D Tech. I did my own resume and listed a lot of different things that I could do at the time..... Long story short, the President of the company asked me right up front "if there was anything that I couldn't do?" My answer..... No!!
So here's the deal.... for anyone that is considering doing a similar project to mine or any of the other great ideas on this forum. Never stop looking passed the horizon for what you think you can do..... and don't accept defeat until you've tried something at least 5 times. The personal satisfaction of trying something new and succeeding can not be measured by man. So to what Steve said above.... "Many of us could/should make our own gears". I say WHY NOT what have you got to loose??