Herding Cats
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Can you guy see and post here?
That sounds like a lot of work, I am more into the instant gratification of someone else doing that part for me even if the info they share is wrongBrilliant idea. If not for a dedicated forum, gearmaking info depends on a search. I for one am pretty tired of reading crap like how to "hob" a worm gear with a free-spinning tap.
I'd like to say right up front that the best information you're gonna get on gearmaking equipment is by visiting the website of a gear machine dealer. Shows what's out there and what it sells for (and sometimes by reading between the lines, why it's available).
Hahahaha - beat me to it. I clicked the post sweating, thinking it was going to be a maths Q or sumfin....I didn't study...
Is that like gozintas?calculatin'?
Hey, I made a gear for my wife’s pencil sharpener that way. Worked, for what it was. She thought I was a genius for fixing the damn thing. Probably spent 2 hours fixing a $20 thing. The reward was better than cash tho .……. I for one am pretty tired of reading crap like how to "hob" a worm gear with a free-spinning tap.……..
I've done the same thing to fix a couple of things....and used them a couple of times as a thread mill....works okayish #FarmyardEngineering providing you grind all the back of the tap away because there's not much clearance going on there....Hey, I made a gear for my wife’s pencil sharpener that way. Worked, for what it was. She thought I was a genius for fixing the damn thing. Probably spent 2 hours fixing a $20 thing. The reward was better than cash tho .
But the lack of clearance is the only way it stays in sync with the pitch. Shit, I just revealed I've done it too. But it was a LONG time ago and I was a different person.providing you grind all the back of the tap away because there's not much clearance going on there....
Hahaha - the grinding of the back of the tap was for threadmilling!But the lack of clearance is the only way it stays in sync with the pitch. Shit, I just revealed I've done it too. But it was a LONG time ago and I was a different person.