{"id":7371,"date":"2025-11-18T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:12:49","slug":"we-have-a-working-worm-and-spur-gear-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7371","title":{"rendered":"We have a working worm and Spur gear set."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After playing about with several iterations of differing angles to help the spur gear mesh with the newly created worms I realised that I had been angling the spin indexer in the wrong direction. I quickly placed my piece of 3mm rod under the other end of the Spin Indexer so that the nose angled down not up and then cut another gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey presto, we have a working worm and spur gear.<\/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\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action-1024x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action-1024x921.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action-768x691.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action-1536x1382.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action-333x300.jpg 333w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Homemade-gears-in-action.jpg 2023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also took a little video of it running in my friend\u2019s G5 chassis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colin G5 chassis Homemade gears\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0aSiLkbOoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a little noisy but I attribute much of that down to the etched gear frame. To confirm this diagnosis, I test fitted a proprietary gear set from Roxey Mouldings that I have in stock and that was just as noisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After playing about with several iterations of differing angles to help the spur gear mesh with the newly created worms I realised that I had been angling the spin indexer in the wrong direction. 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