On 7 December 2015 at 16:38, Stephen Dubovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes cutting the gears really easy. The large gear can be cut w/ a form > tool on a lathe just like you were cutting any other screw and the little > one can be easily bought (or cut using conventional gear cutter and indexer)
I can cut a gear with a helix about as easily as a straight one. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/n12qECTl-i6jz2xzgGuXWtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink is my setup cutting a kick-starter quadrant. The question is whether to cut the worm with a form tool or a hob. I suspect that pitch accuracy would be better if cut with a hob. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
