Grinding Down Drill Motor Gears

[fred]

How do you grind down drill motor gears? Is this an safe thing to do? We don't need the gear but we want to use the motor.

~Fred

[kevin.li.rit]

I wouldn't recommend it.

[Rickertsen2]

How do you grind down drill motor gears? Is this an safe thing to do? We don't need the gear but we want to use the motor.

~Fred

I don't know if it is safe or not, but we have done ot with excellent results. Other teams say they have not had such sucess though. I don't remember exactly what we did, but i can ask the kid who did it.

[Joe Johnson]

We press them off using an arbor press and two 1/4 in steel plates that we have milled down a sort of pocket into right at the crack between the plates -- they kind of fit like a collar around the shaft between the motor housing and the gear.

Works great.

Joe J.