Make Your Own Amazing Mechanical Toys

By Michael Screen

This guide to making five kinetic, mechanical marvels combines basic mechanical principles with shaping and fitting components crafted from timbers and manufactured boards. Perfect for beginners, this book acts as an introduction to basic motion and mechanisms such as cams, cranks, levers, and linkages to generate motion and movement in a wheeled toy. It includes useful techniques, such as production aids for wheel-making, and painting and finishing techniques.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785005111
• ISBN13: 9781785005114
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.4"