{"id":7261,"date":"2025-10-03T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:26:04","slug":"my-journey-into-model-gear-cutting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7261","title":{"rendered":"My Journey into Model Gear Cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having determined with help that the missing final drive gears were MOD 0.3 and that MOD 0.3 is a bit fine for 7mm models I bought from Chronosa set of MOD 0.5 gear cutters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chronos.ltd.uk\/nitropack_static\/SyzWboNWgXVpjGxCgpUgzPIwRPLahOyY\/assets\/images\/optimized\/rev-d9f18e9\/www.chronos.ltd.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/cuttersetl-2-655x396.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-chronos-engineering-tools wp-block-embed-chronos-engineering-tools\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3RDueioQXn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronos.ltd.uk\/product\/set-of-6-gear-cutters-with-2mt-arbor\/\">Set of 6 Gear Cutters with 2MT Arbor-SORRY OUT OF STOCK<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Set of 6 Gear Cutters with 2MT Arbor-SORRY OUT OF STOCK&#8221; &#8212; Chronos Engineering Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chronos.ltd.uk\/product\/set-of-6-gear-cutters-with-2mt-arbor\/embed\/#?secret=fV9yjHjoiz#?secret=3RDueioQXn\" data-secret=\"3RDueioQXn\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also bought a single MOD 0.3 No5 cutter which will cut 26-34 teeth from a company in Japan called Gavan Tools but no great surprise that once despatched and I started tracking it, it was coming direct from Shanghai China. That said, the tracking information provided was excellent and it arrived safe and sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-1024x992.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-1024x992.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-768x744.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-1536x1488.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-310x300.jpg 310w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the same image with a little more contrast to all you to better read the details<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast-1024x992.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast-1024x992.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast-768x744.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast-1536x1488.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast-310x300.jpg 310w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MOD-0.3-No5-Gear-Cutter-contrast.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having determined with help that the missing final drive gears were MOD 0.3 and that MOD 0.3 is a bit fine for 7mm models I bought from Chronosa set of MOD 0.5 gear cutters. I also bought a single MOD &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear-cutting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}