On Tuesday, 6 August 2019 09:40:53 UTC+1, Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer wrote:
On 06/08/2019 08:33, harry wrote:
On Monday, 5 August 2019 21:29:28 UTC+1, Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer wrote:

What's the favoured approach to getting hold of gears,
to cut them yourself, or to buy from, say, HPC gears?

You are not likely to have the equipment needed to do this .
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/hobbing+cutter


Actually the reason for my query is that last year
I bought a Jacobs gear hobber for a reason that has now
gone and I was wondering if there might be a market
for its sale.

I have a 55 year old dream from the days of my
impoverished teenage years that I would make my
own communications receiver to compete with the
likes of the best at that time, and I intended to
cut gears for the tuning dial but recently have
obtained the rolls royce of dials, the
Eddystone 898 so no longer need the hobber.

Of course there's a market. Silly question. As is the choice of buy or cut, anyone that can buy the gears they need/want will do so.