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A Fresh Set of Eyes

May 2, 2019

Hanspeter Dinner’s account of his “baptism by fire” into the gear industry contains a number of important lessons for other “newbies”; some reminde...

Beautiful on the Inside

November 15, 2018

Dwight Smith

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Higher Quality Internal Gears

Changing Bearings

October 25, 2018

Charles D. Schultz

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Just as “conventional thinking” h...

Planetary Gears: Inside Information

July 3, 2018

Charles D. Schultz

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The Story So Far

Can We Use This Instead?

June 12, 2018

Charles D. Schultz

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Right up there with the dreaded “blank sheet of paper” is the inevitable question of “Can we use this instead?” It came as a real shock to me the f...

The Long and Short of It

April 25, 2018

Charles D. Schultz

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One of the problems with “tribal knowledge” is that the terminology can confuse those who are not fully immersed in that community. I have lost ...

Still Pumped About Herringbones

November 30, 2017

Charles D. Schultz

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I rambled on about herringbone gear in my last posting but still have more to share on these once commonplace gears. Today we’ll cover the use of c...

Friction Coefficient of Differently Treated Steel Surfaces

November 1, 2017

A reader asks about ion-nitride finished shafts and the proper friction coefficient to be used for calculations.

Fact Checking Legends

August 29, 2017

Charles D. Schultz

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The much better half returned from her first beauty shop appointment in Oil City, shaking her newly coiffed head. Her stylist was an Oil Country li...

Thanksgiving

November 22, 2016

Charles D. Schultz

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I was going to reflect on how November 22, 1963 changed so many things, but decided it wasn’t an anniversary ending in a five or a zero and I would...