I was surfing through my blog feeds and came across this web-app which I thought was interesting, especially if you’re going to make your own Planetary Gear or Tellurion planetary simulator…
To add to this. You can easily cut gears out of Delrin (acetal homopolymer). This makes gears that can also hold up to some additional stresses in applications that acrylics would not be suitable for.
A couple good links to start with delrin (not specific to gears mind you):
f you can cut timing-pulley shapes instead of involute gears you may be able to simplify some designs a lot. I’m thinking about that for the tellurion. So thanks for that link.