Plastic Gearing Continues Converting the Unconverted March 1, 2016 Plastic gears are everywhere today - throughout your car, at the oceans' lowest depths, in deep space. The question, when is a metal gear a candidate for plastic conversion, can be addressed in three words, i.e. what's the application?Read More
Reviving Old Ideas February 23, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments My last blog may have sounded like I didn’t think there was anything really new to be found in the gear trade. Actually I think there are numerous ...Read More
Something to Look Forward to February 18, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments With Super Bowl 50 behind us, the sporting public can turn its attention to basketball and hockey while baseball teams start spring training. Those...Read More
Discovering Gears February 9, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Recently, an attorney told me that his eleven-year-old daughter had “discovered” gears in a science class and was excitedly learning all she could ...Read More
Pferd Cast Cut Carbide Burs Feature High Stock Removal Rate, Smooth Milling Action February 5, 2016 Pferd Inc. has introduced Cast Cut, a new line of high-performance carbide burs specially designed for work on cast iron. They are charac...Read More
Room for Improvement January 28, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Previous blogs here have celebrated the great advances made in gear industry design capabilities and machine tools. As the “paper of record” for th...Read More
Nostalgia Time January 21, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments I am less of an airplane fan than most engineers, but the news reports of Air France scheduling special “last flights” for its retiring Boeing 747 ...Read More
Seco PCD05 and PCD20 Milling Insert Grades Designed for Use with Turbo 10 Cutters January 18, 2016 Seco has introduced two new PCD-tipped milling insert grades – PCD05 and PCD20 – for use with Turbo 10 cutters. Suited to aer...Read More
Better Tools, Better Gears? January 14, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Previous blogs have discussed how fortunate we are to live in an age with the very best in gear making technology. Modern gear grinding m...Read More
German Machine Tools of America Incorporate Hard Scudding Process January 12, 2016 The scudding industry took another step forward recently with a new process known as Hard Scudding. The conventional Scudding process wor...Read More