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December 27,
2007
For the past
few months, I have been building an orrery. It is a comission...
just shipped it off to Minneapolis. The new owner has made a very
pretty web page for it
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on images to see larger
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This has been
the main result of my recent acquisition of a CNC Taig micro mill
with 4 axes.
One turn of
the crank is a fortnight.
Sarah
Moore made a video!
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The 6 planets
and sun and moon are made of glazed porcelain. Shown below is
earth, moon and mars.
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The gears
are bronze. I cast the blanks first, cleaned them up in the lathe,
and the little milling machine did the rest.
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The main shaft
of the moon drive train rides on 4 sealed bearings.
At present,
I don't even use CAD software. All G-code was generated by my
own C++ programs.
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