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Cutting gears on a shaper.
pgp001:
Here is a solution my late father came up with to use a slotting head on the milling machine for shaping gears.
He made a set of Myford change wheels on it which go up in increments of one tooth, the stack of gears is pretty impressive.
Phil
awemawson:
Welcome aboard Phil, that's an impressive gear making set up.
Is that what preceded your Mikron Hobber, or was it replaced by it?
Andrew
stvy:
Phil,
More details on that set-up please!
Regards,
Steve
NeoTech:
Thats a really interesting gear setup, i cant stop wondering if that would work with my slotting head on the Aciera. =)
Not to mention that slotting head tool.. Could we have a closeup on that? =)
pgp001:
--- Quote from: awemawson on November 20, 2013, 04:39:13 PM ---Welcome aboard Phil, that's an impressive gear making set up.
Is that what preceded your Mikron Hobber, or was it replaced by it?
Andrew
--- End quote ---
Hi Andrew
I still have both machines, the Mikron came first and then I inherited the Alexander Master Toolmaker when my dad passed away ten years ago. I remember your visit to me with a box of hobs when I lived in Harrogate.
I do have a hand written sheet my dad did on how to set the machine up for different tooth counts, the cutters are genuine Sunderland ones and I have about half a dozen different sizes, the cutter is held in a home made clapper box in a similar way to a shaping machine tool.
The idea is you make one pass and do a few teeth, then shift the table back and index the blank round part of a turn and make the next pass. The number of teeth per pass depends on the number of teeth on the wheel and there is a formula for working it out.
My dad was a bit of a genius when it came to working out compound gear trains, I dont think your average model engineer would have come up with a set up like that.
Phil
Phil
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