Thanks for the offers and help guys. It's a lot to go through if at the end its not going to work. I've sat scratching my head at it all day and the only way I can be sure of it working is with a timing belt front and back with a bar clamped between them.
I can gear it much easier and the whole...
Quite right Chris 130mm.
Looks like I'm fitting chain and sprocket. Didn't want to as I'd rather stick with wood but I'm stuck with twenty turns at source. I was hoping to gear down to say ten turns with enough poke to lift the tiny drawer set and possibly make a feature of the turned shaft...
Haya people.
Sorry my first post is a plea for help but I'm having trouble sourcing a short length of treaded dowel.
I'm building a work cabinet that has a small set of drawers that lift out of the top when a handle is turned.
Turning the handle also opens the doors. The doors and running...