 Since it's pouring right now, maybe I can start working on these gears. I was thinking about either a 12-tooth or a 16-tooth. 16-tooth, I think will be better because more teeth will be in contact at any time, and I can make, now that I have a milling machine, you know, I should be able to make this pretty good. And then the other gear is going to be 8 times the size of this one. So 16 teeth, the other one will be 128. Teeth, man, that's a lot of teeth. And 24 centimeters across at the middle of the teeth. So that means it's going to have to be a 25 and a half centimeter gear, and that's a big gear. Oh, that's better be a good boat because I'm committing a big chunk of this stuff to it. This used to be a tabletop. I got in the garbage. I've already used one of these. Tell me I've got something in here with centimeters on it. I can't do this in inches. Do this stuff without other people around because when other people are around, they start asking questions like, how are you going to get the bevel the right angle? How are you going to get the tooth shape? What are you going to do for this and that? And I'm like, dude, all I'm doing right now is I need a circle. That's what step I'm on. Step next is for the future. I have to figure that one later. Right now, I just need a circle. I know I need a circle, and I don't want to do that. So what's the next thing I need to do? Okay, I've not yet turned this thing on, and I don't know how half of it works. Oh, great. First thing I'm doing, and I max out the size of the lathe, if I trim this a little bit, it'll fit in there. I made this a tiny bit bigger than it needed to be. I guess I shouldn't have done that. Or if you just make the little gear blank first. I made that on my little lathe because I'm having some difficulty getting this guy started. First guess is a starter capacitor. I need to replace in there. Once I get it running, it runs fine. It's just the starting. I have to try it like 10 or 15 or 20 times before I get it to go. Super fancy gear angle thingy. Half the head cut off. So if I put this up against it, my ruler goes right down the middle. 128 lines. 16. Yes, now I need to actually cut those teeth. That means I need a fancy tooth cutter thing. I'm making the cutter out of a piece of aluminum aluminum to make it easy on myself. I've just got it rounded, not all the way, but good enough. Now I need to figure out how to kind of curves I want to cut into there and make the teeth. This is a key as in keyed shafting. And I've attempted to carve what I think the end of a gear tooth looks like. And I'm hoping this is hard enough to carve this aluminum. It should be. I think that's about as good as I'm gonna get it doing it by eyeball. A little bit of etch-a-sketch skills going on here. Turns out my little cutter there is too small. Just want to try to fit this in there. It hits up here. Which is kind of a good thing, because now I just need to make another one of those, which I already did. A wider one that'll stick out farther so that thing will be clear. And it's good because really this gear and this gear should have different shaped teeth anyway. These ones should be like wider V and these ones should be more straight down. So that's what I did with those. They're a little bit different. All right now I need to cut Gru's V's out of these to actually give them teeth. Looks good. From funny lane, who's funny lane? Two jeans. I have a funny looking head. You're a donkey head, what? And this is me that means it's you saying Jamie you are a donkey head? Oh Jamie are you a donkey head? Sorry. And I'm saying I'm a donkey head. And now down here says your name is Duckfoot. So I'm Duckfoot the donkey head? You are gonna get such a letter when I get out of here. Like your pictures. You spelled your wrong. Are they? Yeah it's Y-O-U-R-E because it's a different yore I'll tell you. All right hopefully donkey heads things here work. If I clean that up it should work. Beauty. This is a big enough radius that these lines are close to parallel but they're not. So when I cut the teeth I have to do two cuts on each teeth to get a bit of a V. So let me see the the top edge of the tooth that I'm going to cut needs to aim directly toward the center of the thing right yeah. So I need to put the top edge of the cutter here lined up right with the middle of the blade then come back and cut a tooth and then do all 128 then move this up. So the bottom edge is aiming at the center and then do the bottom edges and I'll have to make sure I get the spacing right when I do the second pass. But let me just get through one pass first. All right top edges of the teeth or the bottom edge I'm cutting at the top anyway. I think I got that lined up. So the top edge is in the center and I'm locking that and locking that so nothing can go up and down anymore. Check that that's lined up right. It looks good. You should cut a slightly deeper channel on this end than the other end but tiny tiny bit. I think I'm almost ready to try a tooth. All right now how deep do the teeth go? That. All right I got this lined up right on one of these lines. I got my nut tightened. That doesn't turn. I think I can do one. Switch this to high gear I think. All right I'm just going to do low gear first. Do the first one really slow. Go through them a little faster. I think I might want to do it a little deeper than that though. I don't know if I'm leaving myself enough space in a minute. Enough space. The tooth needs to be fatter than the slot. So when I cut the bottom edges of these it'll shrink the tooth down to equal the slots and it does look like the tooth is a little bigger than the slots right now. So I think I'm good. Just need to do this 128 times and then do the bottom edges 128 times. That's a lot of cuts. Oh look at that. I've never had this kind of precision before. Just a way to like get one of those tables or make a thing that I can control that rotation. And then those will be perfect. Oh I totally want to finish this right now. I need to go check my fish trap. There might be some fish in there right now. And I should go to the farm and do some, I don't know, some planting up some food and some weeding and check on everything. Yeah I gotta do some other stuff. I'll just leave that set up right there.