Kirk Wallace wrote: > Has anyone tried cutting gears with something similar to this > arrangement? > > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Gear_Cutter-1b.png > > I was thinking a slot saw (gray disk) could be used, centered on the > gear shaft(violet). The gear tooth form could be followed with Y while > rotating the gear (bronze color) and incrementing X on each gear > rotation until the width of the gear is complete. Or successive passes > in X and incrementing Y and A could make a complete tooth so that one > gear rotation would complete the gear. Slot saws aren't very stiff and > don't side cut, so some other cutter would be needed. Part of my > thinking is that I would like to avoid special cutters like those needed > for normal gear cutting. >
In theory, this can be done. A thin slitting saw would deflect too much to get an accurate tooth profile. You can buy gear tooth cutters and run them like this, and it will go much faster, which is still fairly slow. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
