Thread: Gizmo

Hello fellow tinkerers!
Here's a desktop gizmo I designed and made last year, using the Geneva drive from the "Mechanical Marvels in Wood" book. It is consists of 3 in series, so the first wheel rotates once for every 6 turns of the handle, then the second once for every 6 rotations of the first Geneva etc.
Connected to the 3 Geneva shafts are veneer ply discs (at the rear) with photocopied anagrams of "nineteen thirty six" (it was a present for my Dad, so his year of birth!), in 3 concentric rings. Each ring is visible by sliding an aluminium viewing port up & down, to create your own nonsense/sentences! Very silly, but entertaining, both to make and to use
The timber carcase is an unknown, from a pallet board, something like Mackay cedar...Red siris?? The wheels are Kauri and some of the mechanism is Spotty gum.

Cheers, back to the lab!