Thread: Lasercutting Spur Gears?
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Unread 09-04-2004, 15:43
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Re: Lasercutting Spur Gears?
With good equipment, waterjetting's funneling shape can be removed. Our team used WireEDM (as Raul suggested) for our purposes.

We drove our treads this year with this custom cut gear:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...achmentid=1992

Which you can see on the robot:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

We also used it for a veeery nice gear in our gearbox that I don't have a picture of at the moment. Regardless, WireEDM is the most precise way to do it. It's just painstakingly slow.
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