sorry - forgot a few things.. The mill was a resharpened at about .47". (why it took 2 tries to get the size where I wanted it) the timing gear was aluminum.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:26 PM Ed <ate...@mwt.net> wrote: > On 4/14/20 9:53 AM, Sam Sokolik wrote: > > now to upgrade the spindle encoder... > > > > https://youtu.be/VmWeXS6y-lg > > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:00 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 02:50, Ed <ate...@mwt.net> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm thinking gear hobs or single cutters. > >> I have been thinking of making gear hobs this way for a while. What > >> holds me back is that I am not sure that I know how to heat treat the > >> hob to a state that will cut the materials that I want to make gears > >> out of. > >> > >> -- > > Heat treating D2 is not a problem here and would work well if a little > slower than M2 high speed. A higher temp furnace is in the plans. I keep > some D2 on hand. > > I am being pushed by a couple customers to get my horizontal/hobbing > machine finished and that will be able to do this kind of work. Soon I > will be paging Andy to help with the setup. :-) > > Ed. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
