Gregory's Server@kenshirriff I understand the idea / how a function is encoded in these cams, but how you'd manufacture them isn't clear to me and isn't coming up easily in search (I'm getting a lot of cam shaft results, which seem relatively simple compared to the cams in an analog computer). Do you know about any resources on how such cams were made?
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@kenshirriff thanks. I don't know why I didn't think of milling machine; part of me knew that they were plenty old. "and a template" was something I absolutely didn't consider except abstractly (I'd imagined something kind of pantograph-y) so this should hopefully be enough to send me down that rabbit hole |
@ChateauErin I think they would machine the cams the same way they would make other metal parts with a complex shape. E.g. using a milling machine and a template.