Bearings in Sheet Metal

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Last summer, I was trying to cut some 1 module (metric) gears with a waterjet in about .4" thick material. Unfortunately, the kerf that yo mentioned prevented the gears from meshing properly.

Could you elaborate as to the methods used to help eliminate kerf? We tried cutting extra slow, but it didn't seem to help much. If you can cut propper bearing press fit holes with a waterjet using proper methods, to seems like cutting gears of at relatively large module would be trivial.

You could just cut .125 plates and stack the gears. That would help quite a bit. Most places that we've used for work just compensate for the kerf via rotating head.

-RC

[AdamHeard]

You can also waterjet both gears, and run them opposite. We've done this in numerous places.