I am a big fan of randomness; to me living in a place where the weather was the same everyday would be a real trial. Given the need some of our spe...

At the risk of permanently cementing my curmudgeon status, today’s blog is a defense of scut work as a necessary tool for training young engineers....

To an engineer there are no accidents, only unanticipated consequences of situations that need to be better understood. We even have a rule about i...

Watching the movie Deepwater Horizon got me thinking about current attitudes on workplace safety. (Full disclosure — I am a bit of a cr...

Moving required getting rid of lots of books. My much better half is also a reader and we made about a dozen trips to the resale shop to put our su...

A question came to me recently in an e-mail that I could not answer from memory. It seemed like something I had read in a book once so the long-del...

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...

It was brought to my attention that the graphics used in my recent “herringbone” postings actually show double helical gears. I have a great suppor...

We have many international readers here at Gear Technology who may wonder about this most American of holidays — Thanksgi...

The last stronghold for herringbones was — and remains — the venerable oil field pumpjack gearbox. Although known by a variety of other names, noth...