MetMo Stainless Steel Gear Train
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- Puzzle play - return the gears to their starting position for hours of fun
- Blow some tiny minds
Materials
Stainless Steel (316 Grade)
Shipping & Returns
The Gear Train will be released in small batches over the course of the year with the delivery window specified. Select your shipping wave to determine which month your Gear Train will ship!
Once the wave sells out, you won't be able to select it any more.
30 day returns policy
Dimensions
Size: 66mm (2.5") x 39mm (1.5") x 23mm (0.9”)
Weight: 226g (7.9 Oz)
Technical Details
Machining Method: CNC Machined
What's in the box?
- Stainless Steel Gear Train
- Stainless steel locking pin
- Keyring
Pairs well with
MetMo Stainless Steel Gear Train
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Command the Power Train
Marvel at this engineering party trick and have onlookers baffled as you spin the top gear while the lowest ones don’t move at all. Are you harnessing dark magic?
Perhaps, but these days most people call it physics. Alas, no magic tricks here. Just unnecessary yet satisfying engineering that reduces the movement of the gears to near standing still. It’s mesmerising to behold.
Quite the Puzzle-Pin to Behold
Do you dare release the gears? Once removed, this simple pin can only be put back in when all the gears align once more! That’s a 16,384 revolution journey - or maybe more if you forget which direction you started in!
Just like planetary alignment, this rare event can be marked with all the holes lining up and the pin being returned home like a tiny cosmic needle. How many revolutions will you get?
Why Gear Train?
Why not! We were inspired by this little bit of physics, but it’s also amazing to have a real life bit of engineering to hold and interact with. Gearboxes are always hidden away in blocks of metal and shrouded in mystery, or guarded with bright red warning signs ‘DO NOT TOUCH!’.
No longer! Now you can get hands on with how these gears work and feel. We set out to create a satisfyingly tactile, handheld, accessible version of the previously unobtainable. You can enjoy a bit of physics, baffle those who pass your desk, and most of all have some gear-shaped fun.
Torque the Talk
Harness the power of the gears. Simply turn the first gear and watch as your motive effort is enhanced by the power of two by each gear. Feel the torque of each level, and interact with gears like never before.
The Gears Have Aligned
Each part is precision machined using CNC machining, and then hand assembled in our UK workshop. Fuelled by Yorkshire tea and a desire to shine, out team machines each part from solid metal to the same tolerances used in aerospace engineering.
Each part of the Gear Train fits together like a Swiss watch, with perfectly meshed gears for maximum satisfaction. You won’t find any mass manufactured parts here, and while it takes a bit longer it also guarantees quality that lasts a lifetime.
Geared to Perfection
Introducing fidget factor; you won’t want to put this stack down! Keep idle hands busy while you come up with all your best ideas, or get lost in the motion. Gear train is a fidget toy in a class of its own. Like the world-record-breaking Class A4 steam locomotive. That’s a pretty good class to be in.
Do you think this is what fidgeters all around had in mind when they wanted to keep busy? Maybe not, but if you’re going to get fiddly it may as well be with a well engineered mechanism.
Tactile Treasure
Not just designed to be a mechanical marvel, the Gear Train gives satisfying tactile feedback. It feels great to hold, and will greatly please your little mechanoreceptors. As the old saying goes,‘happy mechanoreceptors, happy life’. Or something like that…
These gears are designed to be touched. Each edge has been finished to perfection, so there are no sharp bits or rough patches. When you hold this gear stack, you won’t want to let it go.
Experimental Inspiration
Artist Arthur Ganson created the piece Beholding the Big Bang, an incredible exploration of the estimated age of the universe. A set of gears over a meter long has a motor running at one end, with the final gear set in a block of concrete.
This impossible looking setup was geared down so much that even with the first gear spinning at speed, it would take 13.7 billion years for the last gear to turn. Because of this, it’s possible to anything with the final gear - in Ganson’s case, it’s embedded in concrete! The gear set still runs perfectly, and it’s a great demonstration of the principals of gear ratios and how powerful they can be.
Shiny Steel
Corrosion resistant and tarnish proof, this solid stainless steel construction will stay looking as good as it does the first time you hold it for years to come. They’ll be excavating this thing in hundreds of years and marvelling at its excessive gearing system.
Weighty stainless steel gives that heavy reassurance that it’s well made, and perhaps consistent paranoia of dropping it on your foot. We wouldn’t advise that though.
Breathtaking Brass
Like clockwork mechanisms of old, this design uses brass gears designed to pay homage to those early machines.
The gears will run so smooth that even the Swiss master watch makers will look on in envy. This version has a hard anodised aluminium base, because every handheld fidget toy needs a perfect weight distribution. This makes it more comfortable to hold and the hard anodising prevents any corrosion, keeping your gear train running for years to come.
Locomotion, Not As We Know It
Enhance your power output by 16,384! Each gear doubles your torque input, and you can even reverse the motion using the lower gears in the train and watch the top gears spin out of control.
But are you strong enough to work your way down each gear and harness the full power of the gear stack?
Catch a Train to Satisfaction
Work your way down the line to get different tactile feedback from the torque on each gear. If you fancy a challenge, try turning the sixth gear down! If you just want to sit back and enjoy the ride, engage with the top gear and enjoy your existence in a perfect world of train bliss.
One Hand, Two Hand, Red Hand, Blue Hand
Fidget with one hand, both hands, or have it take pride of place on your desk and use just one finger to twirl your gears! Feeling ambidextrous? Gear train won’t judge! You can use this bad boy with any finger on any hand. You could even use your toes if you’re so inclined.
World’s Strongest Fingers
Turn those gears, and turn your fingers into powerlifters. Working your way up and down the gears gives your fingers a workout, and will gradually train your pinch strength. Soon you’ll be dangling off the Burj Khalifa by your finger tips, and eventually you’ll be grabbing with the strength of a coconut crab. Show those coconuts who’s boss.
Fancy Desk
Have your desk toys stand as a testament to engineering. People will walk by and want to know just what’s going on, and you can tell them all about it. It’s a fidget toy you’ll be proud to display.
Service Please!
You can also take it apart and service it yourself if it needs any help along the way, or maybe you want to challenge someone to put their own gear train together! Either way, your train isn’t going off its tracks any time soon.
Lasting Lifetimes
Like any great steam locomotive, Gear Train will still be turning in 200 years - that’s our guarantee. If it’s not, send it back for a repair or we’ll replace it. We’re confident in what we do, and how we do it. We design like they did in the Victorian era, and we use the best materials we can get our hands on all to ensure this train will keep chugging throughout time.
TLDR;
More of a visual learner? Check out Sean talking through the Gear Train below!
