Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2020 17:51:51 Chris Albertson wrote: > If you have a BS1 with morterized index, you not want to hob gears but > cut one tooth, rotate the gear and then cut the next. You need a set > of gear cutters for the size gear. I has looking to buy some. > They are a little

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2020 14:33:20 Matthew Herd wrote: > I’ll second Boston Gear. I was able to get change gears for my Atlas > lathe from them as off the shelf parts. I'd go with Boston Gear, they were big already in the 1960's. had everything we needed to make a microwave frequency

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Chris Albertson
If you have a BS1 with morterized index, you not want to hob gears but cut one tooth, rotate the gear and then cut the next. You need a set of gear cutters for the size gear. I has looking to buy some. They are a little expensive so it is best to pick one or two size gears and then make

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 20:49, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > Not a website, but the book "Gears and Gear Cutting" from the workshop > practice series shows how to make cutters and cut gears. This one: https://www.amazon.com/Gears-Gear-Cutting-Workshop-Practice/dp/0852429118/ Definitely a good

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
ed Machine Controller (EMC)' Subject: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions Greetings all; Is there available on the net, a good treatise of making gears with something like this BS-1? And, is anyone grinding tools & making arbors to mount them? I have a mental vision of buying replacem

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Matthew Herd
I’ll second Boston Gear. I was able to get change gears for my Atlas lathe from them as off the shelf parts. > On Dec 17, 2020, at 2:29 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: > > Are you bent on making them yourself, or would you consider purchasing? > > Check out Boston gear (bostongear,com) or Martin gear

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread jrmitchellj
Are you bent on making them yourself, or would you consider purchasing? Check out Boston gear (bostongear,com) or Martin gear (martinsprocket.com) as purchase option/ --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com "Good enough is the enemy of excellence"author unknown On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 19:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Do you want to hob the gears or cut one tooth at a time? > > Either. Well, there is always https://youtu.be/ZhICrb0Tbn4 And: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Hobbing -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2020 14:03:18 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2020 12:46:35 andy pugh wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 17:40, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > Is there available on the net, a good treatise of making gears > > > with something like this BS-1? > > > > Do you

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2020 12:46:35 andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 17:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is there available on the net, a good treatise of making gears with > > something like this BS-1? > > Do you want to hob the gears or cut one tooth at a time? Either. > > And, is

Re: [Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 17:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is there available on the net, a good treatise of making gears with > something like this BS-1? Do you want to hob the gears or cut one tooth at a time? > And, is anyone grinding tools & making arbors to mount them? To mount what? > I have

[Emc-users] Tooling availability questions

2020-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Is there available on the net, a good treatise of making gears with something like this BS-1? And, is anyone grinding tools & making arbors to mount them? I have a mental vision of buying replacement head gears for this G0704, which are plastic, and making metallic gears to