2009/11/7 Roland Jollivet <roland.jolli...@gmail.com>: > I watched milling of aluminium toothed pulleys at a company once. They had > put a whole lot of 2" discs on a shaft, maybe 10" long, tightened up, and > had the whole thing in a dividing head, then just milling grooves with an > end mill.
The pulleys I am currently using look to have been cut with a profiled milling cutter on a horizontal mill or possibly hobbed. That surprised me as I would have expected them to be broached in a pot-broach. Most of the profiles don't look to lend themselves to DIY milling. > Notice the flanges are on alternate sides. Cunning, though I have seen at least two designs of flangeless belts. http://www.goodyearep.com/productsdetail.aspx?id=3400 and another with staggered teeth but no helix -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users