Jim:-
The gears used on the Climax are not spiral bevels, but skew bevels. As I
understand it a spiral bevel, as usually sold, is similar to the well known
straight bevel where the shafts meet at a point, but has spirally cut teeth to
give a greater contact area and greater smoothness.
A skew
At 02:12 PM 8/15/03 +0800, you wrote:
The firm SHM is the old established company S.H.Muffett Gears.
Jim Gregg.
I thought they bit the dust years ago, along with A. Kellett.
Regards,
Harry
Harry,
I have been looking for Kozo's second part of his Climax gears article
in the August 1983 Live Steam for years. I will check out the new
printing of his book.
In the power transmission industry we called them off-set helicals and
used them in place of worm drives when the ratio was low.
At 09:06 AM 8/15/03 -0700, you wrote:
I have been looking for Kozo's second part of his Climax gears article
in the August 1983 Live Steam for years. I will check out the new
printing of his book.
Harley,
Unfortunately I have only the articles as they originally appeared in
LSM so I don't
Harry wrote:-
One of the two independant articles has a full 1-1/2 pages of
complex math formulae to be solved for the various weensy geometrical bits.
It's all in the book - how else would I be able to work out the dimensions for a
set of gears with a totally different ratio and size?
Mike
