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Re: How to cut spur gears?
Its a lost cause to try and cut spur gears on a verticle mill.
Go find a local machine shop that has a hob or shaper and beg for them to make the gears for you. Sponsor what ever.
Mills can cut sprockets slowly but not gears. True sprockets are hobbed as wheel its much much faster.
If you can get an opertunity to go see a hob working.....GO its a really cool machine to watch run. And once you see how it works you'll understand why not to bother with trying to machine it on a verticle mill.
While your there try and watch a shaper work very simple VERY COOL.
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