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Real Gears need special machines
You can (and we have) make sprockets pretty easily on a mill.
Gears are another thing entirely. Unless your gear size is huge, you really can't get a mill cutter to make the proper involute shape that a gear requires (at least standard gear us involute shapes -- there are other profiles but, for a number of very good reasons, most popular is the involute).
I recommend that you find a wire edm source from the Mainland. Why not?
Joe J.
P.S. As to a repeat of my teammate, Mike Ciavaglia's motor presentation in Manchester in 2002, this seems unlikely at the present for a number of reasons: We are probably going to our local kickoff here in MI in order to save money, Mike C. is on a job that is about as hot as jobs get around here, and finally, Bob Hammond gave me too much grief about extorting extra invitations to the kickoff in trade for running the various Chief Delphi Seminars. All in all, I doubt it will happen. JJ
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Woody says that gracious professionalism is "acting how you would if you grandmother was watching you"... some people must have some really crazy grandmothers. (: - Cappeh [more] 
05-10-2001, 17:02
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