Check this out! Want a challenge?

[Scrappile]

Okay, going to post this in a second forum,  I posted it in "Other wood working" got little attention, and I thing it deserves more,  This is cool, and would, I think, be a challenge to make.  I have his carousel plans.  Good service, good plans.  Fact I think I will add him to the pattern shop in resources.  This must have taken some thought and trial and error.  Check it out you toy builders especially.  I will probably give it a try when I finish some other projects.  It is a short video.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/927249010757861976/

 

[OCtoolguy]

Thanks Paul. That's the sort of thing that winds my crank. I might have to try that transformer.

[Matt B]

I just downloaded the plans. This will be a project with my 7 year old grandson.  He is always drawing robots for me to cut and we build.  This project is going to be really exciting for him.  

[kmmcrafts]

That is really cool!  The brain that makes these designs like this is way smarter than my pea sized one for sure, LOL

 

[barb.j.enders]

Very cool.  I think I will pass on that however, unless the grandson starts showing interest in something like that.

[Matt B]

Looking over the plans, the measurements are in metric.  Calls for 20mm and 40 mm wood.  American 3/4 is 19mm.  I have 4/4 poplar that I plan to use.  Will plane to 20mm and will glue up the wood for the 40mm parts.   I did not study the plans close enough to see if 3/4 and 1 1/2 would work.  Probably would.  

There are dowel rods that are non-standard when converted from metric.  I plan to use the next closest size that we can easily obtain and modify the plans to drill the correct corresponding holes. 

The plans are detailed, 34 pages long.  

[scrollingforsanity]

Looks like fun but way to complicated for this old boy. Paul enjoys making things like that I will let him try first,

[Scrappile]

4 hours ago, scrollingforsanity said:

Looks like fun but way to complicated for this old boy. Paul enjoys making things like that I will let him try first,

You mean I enjoy trying.  I have pieces of thing like that laying around my shop... Some I do not even remember what I was trying to make!

Edited January 21, 2023 by Scrappile

[OCtoolguy]

1 hour ago, Scrappile said:

You mean I enjoy trying.  I have pieces of thing like that laying around my show... Some I do not even remember what I was trying to make!

It's a unique club that I belong to also.

 

[Matt B]

Since this is a scroll saw forum, I attached one of the pages from the instructions that shows some of the parts. You would use a scroll saw to cut out the wheel hubcaps.  Some of the other parts would be cut out on a scroll saw too.

The designer is from Turkey, he used what looked like a hand coping saw for some of his cuts.

Matt