My last posting covered the beginning stages of the path to gear expertise. Your “Jon Snow” days of knowing nothing won’t last long. Very quickly y...

There is no “gear expert” merit badge for you to earn. I have posted before about the limited amount of gear education included in the standard eng...

Spur gears have been around “forever.” That ancient astronomical device recovered from the Mediterranean Sea a few years ago shows the antiquity an...

When the average civilian hears the word “gear,” if they think of mechanical things at all, they envision a big spur gear, perhaps in a clock or wi...

Regular readers know that I am a big fan of both the Boy and Girl Scout programs. My children were scouts. My wife and I were scout leaders. One of...

When I started writing my gear book back in 1986, the mission was to provide enough information for a person new to the gear trade to tell if someo...

No one becomes a gear expert overnight. You might be abruptly assigned the title by your employer, but it takes some time before you can really ful...

Learning about gears is much easier in a group setting. Anyone who suffered through a tough high school or university class without study buddies w...

Faithful followers of this blog can complete that mantra without prompting, but for new readers — the beginning of wisdom is calling things by thei...

So, you want to teach people about gears. It is a huge topic with many interesting and complicated facets to it. A person could spend their entire ...