Meccano helical gear cutter

This is a homemade machine built almost entirely out of meccano, used to cut meccano helical gears (14 teeth up to 35 teeth) out of a brass blank cut previously on a lathe. The machine is mounted at 45 degrees angle on the table of a regular horizontal milling machine. Before the cut, the table was initially adjusted to center the blank on the cutter, and then locked-in. The meccano machine does all the work. It uses two stepper motors, one for feeding the blank into the rotating gear cutter, the other