When you are searching, also use ‘change gear holder’ or change gear stand’.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256620667585

There are a limited number of sites where 3D models are shared. Thingiverse is perhaps the best known.

Draw up a list of those sites and use thier search function.

If you believe it to be an article in a printed magazine of this stable, use the searchable index that is provided and search that. People take a lot of time and trouble to compile the index.

It would be useful to state the spec. of the gears you wish to hold. The Myford one, for 20DP by fives would not fit 1 MOD gears.

Mine’s a simple piece of wooden dowel in chunk of plywood!

John,

As above, it’s not at all a difficult exercise.  The one pointed to by DC31k is very pretty, I’ll admit, but the one I made for (some of) my change wheels is much simpler:

These are gears for a 7×14 mini lathe. The two pinion gears on the lower left are from the thread dial gauge. There are two other larger gears which complete the set that would easily be accommodated by enlarging the base, but as this was only intended to store the gears long term, I didn’t bother.  They all now languish unused in a drawer since I fitted an electronic lead screw.

I didn’t put it on my Thingiverse account because it won’t accept Alibre CAD files and it needs to be easily modified to suit various gears sizes

John

On 9 January 2026 at 09:35 Bazyle Said:

Google “thingiverse change gear”. But a board with 3 pegs is hardly difficult to make and gives you something to challenge kids with sorting them in the lowest number of moves.

Apparently something that children master easily but “AI” finds nearly impossible.

I have rather a lot of them when it comes to Myford change gears, I use a steel rod held in an old 3 jaw chuck to hold them.

Hi Phil P,

Must make it interesting when you need the one at the bottom !

I have only three or four for my Craftsman lathe, so storing them is not a problem, I just keep them on a stud inside the rear cover.

Never knew there were so many changewheels required for some lathes.

On 11 January 2026 at 14:05 larry phelan 1 Said:

Never knew there were so many changewheels required for some lathes.

They don’t. Phil has them for the same machine I have them – they are change gears for a gear hobber. Here are mine.

On 11 January 2026 at 12:28 Phil P Said:

I have rather a lot of them when it comes to Myford change gears, I use a steel rod held in an old 3 jaw chuck to hold them.

Now if you had two more chucks and steel rods you could totally baffle all the AIs with the most difficult Tower of Hanoi ever…

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Gotcha Phil. Sometimes the best tonic is simply having something to do. My dad started building a Jinty that he had no hope of ever completing but it gave him purpose and that was good enough.</p>
Ironically, Myford changewheels are 20dp and Mikron ones are 1.25mod and they are so close that they will mesh and run together perfectly acceptably for indexing.