Team 4499's first Homemade Gear!

[Michael 4499]

From the time that we bought our Haas VF2 CNC mill last year, we have been wanting to make our own gears due to the mill coming with a 4th axis. This has been a long off-season challenge from getting the 4th axis operational to writing a python program to make the G-Code, it has finally been accomplished. To make this gear we lathed the aluminum to the nominal diameter and then used the mill to cut the teeth with an involute cutter. This is a 24 teeth gear made out of 6061-T6 aluminum and we are hoping to experiment with 1018 steel soon. If you have any questions on our set-up for making gears feel free to ask.