If you use a divider head its not hobbing. Hobs do not have epicycloidal teeth. They are trapezoidal iirc. The curved tooth comes from rotating both the hob AND the blank together to get multiple angles of attack on the cut.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Peter Blodow <[email protected]> wrote: > Andy, yes, I've seen that video. If it weren't about showing the > principle, I dare say there are simpler ways to mill a hob like this. As > a matter of fact, I am just now up to make a similar (but larger) hob > for a lawn mower drive (but the stone age way with a divider head, for > reasons of time). Admirable, though, your beautiful finger nails, wonder > how you can keep them that way... > > Peter > > Am 08.12.2015 20:30, schrieb andy pugh: > > On 8 December 2015 at 16:31, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The pinion now would be difficult if not impossible without obtaining a > >> motorized indexing head, and mounting the tool sideways. But that would > >> imply slaving the indexing head to Z. Nothing is impossible, but that > >> would take a very creative hal file I'd think > > Have you not seen my (almost famous) YouTube video? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhICrb0Tbn4 > > > > > --- > Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK > Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. > Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. > Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple > OSs. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
