Thread: What is your favorite method for attaching gears to shafts?
View Single Post
  #14   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 24-06-2002, 04:00
archiver archiver is offline
Forum Archival System
#0047 (ChiefDelphi)
  
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Pontiac, MI
Posts: 21,214
archiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond reputearchiver has a reputation beyond repute
"grub screw' for certain situations
Posted by Matt Berube at 05/03/2001 11:29 AM EST


Engineer on team #49, Delphi Knights, from Buena Vista High School and Delphi Automotive.


In Reply to: What is your favorite method for attaching gears to shafts?
Posted by bill whitley on 04/30/2001 3:51 PM EST:



One thing that worked well for us this year was a dutchman screw or a grub screw.

This is for situations where you are putting a gear or some other hub onto the end of a shaft.

You drill a hole on the interface of the shaft and the hub along the axis of the shaft, then tap this hole and put a set screw in it. For this connection to fail you will need to shear the entire screw lengthwise of split the hub.

Advantages of this connection are that it is strong,, easy and doesn't require a machine shop.

The dis-advantages are that it is very dificult to disassemble and re-assemble (don't plan on doing it) and that it will only work at the end of the shaft.

Hope that helps someone.
Matt B.
T49


__________________
This message was archived from an earlier forum system. Some information may have been left out. Start new discussion in the current forums, and refer back to these threads when necessary.