My idea is for creating hob teeth profiles directly on gear-milling machines to cut details such as gears, sprockets, gearbelt pulleys, straight-sided spline shafts ...

You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own ...

There is a second dimension to the gear making process, which opens new potential for the century-old technique. Mark Grizotsky of Thornhill, Ontario, writes: We discovered new possibilities in the ...

Ordinarily, when we need gears, we pop open a McMaster catalog or head to the KHK website. Some of the more adventurous may even laser cut or 3D print them. But what about machining them yourself?

Makers, engineers and hobbyists who would like to automatically manufacture a variety of different size plastic gears you might be interested in a unique machine built using a little Arduino hardware, ...

Cutting tool and tooling system specialist Sandvik Coromant has extended the functionality of its InvoMilling software. The latest version of this user-friendly CAD/CAM solution for fast and simple NC ...

The production of noiseless gears requires that minute errors in tooth-curves be avoided. Objectionable sound-waves are caused by a gear-tooth error of 0.0003 in. and ...