Higher Quality Internal Gears

You might be thinking this conversation would logically move to other tooth modifications. Gear Technology has and will c...

You kids are spoiled! Back in my day it took at least a day to see the results of computer modeling, longer if the courier dropped the box of input...

There is an old saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Imagine that you are tasked by your employer to de...

Designing gears is somewhat of a mathematical puzzle. You have lots of interconnected factors to play with in hopes of finding the “best” overall s...

The second component in that face contact ratio equation is the face width. There are almost as many “rules of thumb” for determining the “proper” ...

I was trained in the cult of the integer face contact ratio. A few adherents to this belief are still above ground, but the introduction of persona...

The most obvious difference between a spur gear and a helical gear is the presence of that “helix” angle. Civilians will call them “straight-cut” a...

Most of the gearboxes I have been involved with use single helical gears. Its excellent power capacity per mesh makes it the default system for man...