gear cutting

Just learning to cut gears. Had to make this arbor for the 22mm cutter bores & keyways. Got very good fits. 12L14 steel.

Hi all, I've been looking for a first project that involves cutting gears and I found one. I'm a homebrewer and want to build a bench bottle capper. I know I could buy one cheaper, but I want a project involving gears. I've been designing this in FreeCad, but I'm not sure what gear parameters...

Hi All, A friend of mine is restoring a 42' sailboat the "Anna" he bought in Portsmouth RI over a year ago. I helped him sail her to Kingston, NY last August, which was quite an adventure.... The other day, he found some of the gear teeth on the propeller blades to be worn (sailboat propellers...

Hi there, I need some help from experienced people in gear cutting. I will try to rebuild my standard modern gears, they are pretty distorted, I know that I will not be able to give a good polishing to surface teeth but it just can't be worst. I bought a cheap set of involute cutters DP16...

This rare dividing attachment came along with the South Bend Lathe I just bought,I searched the internet and came up with not much information on it other than it is a milling/dividing attachment and was listed in the South Bend catalogs in the 1930's (I haven't checked other decades yet). It...

So here's another one of my long posts to draw on some of the experience others may have. I want to make some gear cutters and ultimately, some gears. The “button” method of profiling a gear cutter seems the most practical. Albeit only an approximation of the addendum profile. I have found some...

Well, starting the new year off right! I'm now the owner of set of Prestech castings of which when finished, will allow me to hob my own gears. There was an auction on eBay over Christmas and I figured what the heck... There are 11 iron castings manufactured by Preserved Technology LTD., of...