Spirograph Tips Video from Wayne Schmidt
If you’ve been frustrated with Spirograph gears skipping out of alignment, spoiling your designs, or even if you’re an experienced spirographer, Wayne Schmidt has a video for you.
He applies his logical, problem solving mind to common pitfalls people run into, and comes up with creative solutions: where to keep your eyes, adding extra rings, using rare earth magnets rather than pins or putty, marking up your gears, and even cleaning up your mistakes!
A must-watch even for serious spirograph artists!
I find this youtuber so frustrating because he disables comments on his videos. I often want to comment, sharing experience and tips, but can’t do so.
Nice video… Wayne recommended a few things I have tried with pretty good success. One thing that also works well for me to keep the gears turning smoothly is to occasionally run a wax candle along the inner gears of the stationary ring. Just a bit of wax makes a noticeable difference. Also, when it comes to the inner wheel skipping or jumping over the ring, I found the main cause was the pen. Some pens don’t project quite enough from the barrel to make good contact with the paper. The causes you to press harder and generate enough force to pop the inner gear… so be sure to check your pen to make sure it goes all the way through the disk.