Here is a great time lapse of an engine rebuild, 3000 photos in all. Very interesting if you enjoy mechanics or want to know what’s inside an engine.
Mechanical Talk
Selecting gears strong enough to do the job you need them for is great but what if those gears are too big to fit in the space you have available? How do you get the same gear ratio from smaller gears? You use a compound gear train and Matthias Wandel […]
Understanding Compound Gear Ratios
Something different today, here is a couple of videos about turbo jet engines. The first one is an old american instructional video which is about a complicated fighter jet engine. The second is everyone’s favourite plumber with his practical guide to making your own jet engine. This is the first […]
Turbo Jet Engines
In this video I take a look at some cheap sets of nylon gears which I bought on ebay. These are not the worlds strongest gears but you can make many different gear combinations and compound gear trains that you are bound to find a use for some of them.
Review of Cheap Ebay Gear and Pully Sets
A differential is an important component in any vehicle, it allows the outside wheel to rotate faster than the inside wheel when you are cornering.This is necessary because when you turn your car the inside wheel has a shorter distance to travel than the outside wheel. Without a differential it […]
How differentials work
I’ve decided that a little bit of discussion on mechanics could be interesting so to start things off here is a very good video detailing how power steering works. Obviously we are unlikely to get anything this complex in a 1:32 scale model tractor but it could give you something […]