Making metal gears with a scrap made dividing head! 

Not what I meant when I looked up "how to build a metal gear" but this is cool.

I am a very beginner of metal lathe. You have taught me a lot of things by watching your video. Thank you and appreciate.

Just what I needed to take me up to economic practicality - many thanks.

Thats incredible, love when guys make really cool stuff with just basic, or even scrap materials, really enjoyed the video, its all about ingenuity and thinking outside the box, and using your imagination, very well done, thanks for posting!!

You can cut an eighty tooth gear using a forty tooth gear for divisions if you cut a central notch in the detent which allows you to engage not only the spaces between the teeth but also the tips of the teeth doubling the number of divisions.

Dear Mr Thunder, you don't need to keep looking for compliments by bemoaning your material and skills, you know and we know , your good, well done, I am going to try the same, when I get my old lathe back on the road. thank you very much, regards Colin UK.

Oh, I watched this again and I didn't see before that the bed moves up/down for any size gear. Nice work, just what I was looking for. Thanks for posting.

This would work great if you needed to make copies of several gears with the same bore, like another set of change gears. Good simple fixture!

Absolutely Love it. More people need to just get the damn job done rather than obsessing over the "Proper" way of doing things. My 2 rules. 1 does the finished part meet spec. 2 does the tool make the part in a way where no one will get hurt. This my brother meets both!!

This is the best gear making video i ever see, it's so simple and efficient thanks.

Freaking brilliant man, as i was watching, one thing came to mind, r.c. car gears, cheap easy to find tooth counts. Once my mill is up and going, i very well might have to copy and modify your idea! Good to see ya got to the editing.

A inspirational video. Always enjoy your ingenuity and hard work. Thanks for sharing.

That rocked. My kind of machining

That jig right there can lead to building your own more complex dividing head with dividing plates. So I would consider that jig a progressive tool. Thanks for the video.

Clever,smart,brainy....there are tons of names for that improvisation that,thinking seriously would bring you where you want.....😉

Pretty great. My dad cut clock gears on the lathe by mount his index behind the chuck and then drug the cutter. Sounds crude but after running gears into each other with lap compound the clock worked.

Nice! All built out of scrap and looks great. Great idea!!!

Simple, effective, and inexpensive. I'm going to build one next weekend!

Brilliant, top man, I am a bit useless at this , but I am going to give it a go as soon as poss., well done and thanks Colin.

Simple and functional. Nice job man!

Make yourself up a little tail stock With a driving dog & you can make custom hex head bolts out of round stock. I've used my atlas index fixture with one of those milling machines quite a bit to do just that. Quite handy

it works and it shows how you can do it your self I like it and I think you did a good job too .

nice job, very good. I will do this for my self. it is easy to do. thank you.

great idea and I see a wat to maybe use this on a lathe!

He's got some pretty good junk and scrap pieces there.

That did real good Thanks for sharing all the best from John in Texas

LOVE IT man. Don't let anything go to waste. At the same time, make some nice crap.

I like it. Making something from nothing. Great job .

The websites that allow you to create any hole pattern are fantastic.

Don't knock it, you done a great job and it got you out of a fix.

Hi Thunderdog, if you cut a slot in the detent 90 deg to the v point you already have you can double the amount of teeth for one change wheel eg 80 teeth from a 40 tooth change wheel, simply by rotating the detent 90 deg for every cut. Good job and a simple solution Cheer

nice to see an Atlas MFC in action!

Great setup. I love the simplicity of it all. Tools dont gotta always be pretty to function. I recently had to make a new ratchet wheel from scratch for my shaper. Lets just say I employed some creative techniques to getter done

Great build build mate, just shows what can be done if you try. :)

Brilliant idea. Thanks.

Bro, don't sell yourself short! That thing is great, just what I need to avoid $600 on a proper rig!

I am so making one of these. Brilliant!

Yes!, from junk....well done! :)

Nice quick fixture

Heck! You got shit done!

Nice 🙂. I made a very similar thing a ma jig to make some bevel gears with the milling attachment. Worked great 😊.

unless youre planning on using bigger change gears for the divider i would shorten the L piece so theres less space between the gear and the locking pin , the pin then has less room to flex making the whole setup more firmer should work fine though i bet with a lathe milling adapter on the crosside of a lathe you could use the same thing on that too and dont even need a milling machine (yeay you can shave the teeth in the gear with the crosslide and a toolbit but that gets old realy fast )

Hello! I used to see your videos pop up but no more . My motto is ( I’ve worked so long with so little I can now do anything with nothing at all ! Sad part is it’s pretty much true . Now I’m self employed and fix everything with little to nothing and get paid to come up with solutions, then apply it to the situation.

Thanks just what i need to do to make some change gears for my emco 5

The manual for the Atlas machine states that climb milling shouldn't be done. Have you had any issues doing that? I'm about ready to start cutting my first gear. Can wait to get started.

Instead of your plywood dividing head and "eyeballing it", I've seen other youtubers use one of those USB microscopes to get more accurate results. They print up a dial with lines on it (just like your current plywood disk). Then, they point a USB microscope at it and show the results on a computer screen. This lets them really zoom in and get extremely accurate alignment for reproducible results. It is still not as accurate as a dividing head, but it is more accurate than trying to eyeball alignment of your disk with a metal square. For what it is worth, you can do basically the same thing with a magnifying eye loupe. Mount the eye loupe on a holder and position it so that it is right in front of your line and metal square. Then you can magnify the alignment of the line with the square to get better results. So imagine that you take your current system and look through a 10X magnifying glass (at a set viewing position). You would expect your error to drop by a factor of 10.

Does it work? Then it's not junk...

Nice, I like it!

Interesting! Great solution! Cheers

Great idea! My lathe (myford) is a bit small but would work if the gear spindle was vertical.

First of all great job,correct me if I’m wrong but if you’re making gears with the same spacing could you use the same 40 tooth gear to make whatever tooth gear you want as long as the diameter was correct for the new gear?

Very good my friend I like your videos, now I was wondering if there is any way to make conical gears with this thing? that would be awesome...

YEAH! Success! Love it!

Tubalcain just showed a similar design but it mounts on the lathe carriage.

i am looking to find a way to do this very thing better that what i had come up with!! so i see it as saying i was on right track!! i love making things from junk!! its not about my time its about my money!!

Yea yr fixture kinda like a thought I had need to make some gears for a basket case mfc...some of gears chipped out but not completely so thinking make a blank same diameter and thickness and use old one to index off of.. for cuts..thanks video

that was GREAT, thank you :-)

Believe it or not I’ve never seen this video but I built basically identical tool to make a worm wheel gear for my radial arm drill never seen this video till today but yeah junk pile build worked great damn near identical

Hey buddy good to see a new video. Feanken index

It only cuts one Diameter Gear?

Thank you. I love

Very informative Thank you

Whats the use of it..someone tell?

How did you lock the spindle for wooden template?

Why do you keep calling it "junk"? Tools we make for ourselves don't need to be pretty. They just need to work, and not blow us up.

Awesome !

it looks amazing well done. you covering your as for some haas employee comes to lay some hate 😂😂😂 its just scrap bro

like it

there is no such thing as a junk bin in my shop ......lol

What's the difference between a piece a 6 inch off cut from the bin and a 6 inch piece that you cut off your stock? None. None at all. I can't see anything wrong with those off cuts. He keeps saying that the build is bad because the metal is junk. If you slap something together then you end up packing it with bits of paper. If you square it up and take care with the build you will get a decent result. I've heard many workmen blame their tools. I've never heard someone call metal junk just because they didn't work it properly. Next time, square it all up before you start. He could have used the same metal and done a good job with it. You can build things at home that are spot on. There's nothing wrong with any of that metal.

Not optical illusion my @$$... Table feed was wrong direction for the direction of cutter. Probably to avoid chatter caused from slack &or flex in the divider, neat if it worked, could easily suck it under the cutter though considering the lack of strength in axis of cut... Box them sides in or cross brace it somehow.

I think there should be more "horrible milling" you RU-vid... it makes me feel a little better about my own.... oh ****, I broke another endmill.

Nice l

Don't e so hard on yourself.

Slap together with junk crap. Hobo machining.