Homemade Gyroscope For Christmas Media

Published: 11 months ago

My son is a physics major and wanted a Gyroscope for Christmas. I merged a couple of designs from @Clickspring to create a bench top style Gyroscope that he could easily power up to speed with a cordless rotary tool. This required a shaft that extended beyond the outer ring to apply power and meant using ceramic roller ball bearings instead of the cone style bearings traditionally used in toy gyroscopes.

Full length Build Video is available if you want to make one for yourself check it out here - https://youtu.be/7Eq1_Jq2MDo

It took me a couple of tries to find roller bearings that could handle the speed for this build. I finally found them at Boca bearing. Link to the bearings I used here - https://www.bocabearings.com/products/sr3c-2os-7-af2-16312

I did a full design of this gyroscope in Fusion 360 and you can access all of the dimensioned drawings for this gyroscope build on a Hobby-Machinist post here - https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/gyroscope-for-christmas.109740/

Built on a Precision Matthews PM 1440TL Metal Lathe.
Mill work done with a Jet JMD 18PFN Mill Drill

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