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
Observations on Air Travel, Continued January 26, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments My first airline trip of the New Year ended like the last one of the previous year: in a middle seat of a fully loaded plane fighting a respiratory...Read More
Bodycote Launches Interactive History of Metallurgy January 25, 2016 Bodycote, announces the launch of their Interactive History of Metallurgy after taking a look back at the long history of metal processin...Read More
A Wide World of Gears January 19, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Blogging from an American perspective can sometimes make me forget that the gear industry is active around the world. I get occasional reminders in...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
Storage Capacity January 12, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments The management here at Beyta Gear Service’s world headquarters has ordered a clean-up of certain storage areas. Our now adult children left quite a...Read More
Who Offered the First Enclosed Gearbox? January 7, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments Let’s start 2016 off with a joint research project. While visiting a client late last year we got to talking gear history and he recounted a story ...Read More
Happy to be Back to Work? January 5, 2016 Charles D. Schultz No Comments As much as I enjoy a bit of time off it gets boring if I am away from gears for too long. Since I have been in the consulting trade the lull in act...Read More
Influences on Failure Modes and Load-Carrying Capacity of Grease-Lubricated Gears January 1, 2016 In order to properly select a grease for a particular application, a sound knowledge of the influence of different grease components and operating conditions on the lubrication supply mechanism and on different failure modes is of great benefit.Read More