The Model DLM flathoning machine 705 from Stahli features a new construction and allows for faster processing speeds. According to the...

Load-carrying capacity of gears, especially the surface durability, is influenced by their tooth surface roughness in addition to their tooth profiles and tooth traces.

The benefits of ground gears are well known. They create less noise, transmit more power and have longer lives than non-ground gears. But grinding has always been thought of as an expensive process, one that was necessary only for aerospace or other high-tech gear manufacturing.

Superfinishing the working surfaces of gears and their root fillet regions results in performance benefits.

Complete Industry News for September/October 2003.

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Bending stress evaluation in modern gear design is generally based on the more-than-one-hundred-year-old Lewis equation.

Almost any external tooth form that is uniformly spaced around a center can be hobbed. Hobbing is recognized as an economical means of producing spur and helical gears with involute tooth profiles.

Complete Product News for July/August 2003.