Trend Talks: Anna Claire Conrad
It’s no surprise that 2013 wasn’t an economically blockbuster year for most industries across the board, and the gear manufacturing industry was not immune...
Q&A with Lewis Weiss
Since this weekly live Internet talk show launched in 2013, you and Tim Grady have discussed breaking news, business trends and economic forecasts in...
Q&A with Hans Ruth
R&P Metrology has been selling to the U.S. for a little over a year now. How did that start?
I’ve worked in this business, especially...
Powder Metal Parts Finishing
This month we will focus on a very important PM finishing process – The steam treating of powder metal parts.
There are several benefits to...
Preliminary Results of Testing of Low-Tooth-Count Bevel Gears of a Novel Design, Part I
In a general sense, LTC bevel gears feature the start-of-active-profile cone angle, ϒl, smaller than the base cone angle, ϒb, of the gear. For...
Achieving modernization in carburizing and quenching requires an overhaul of load sizes and materials...
As the effort to automate heat treating has evolved, OEMs — especially automotive suppliers — have embraced the effort to move the process from...
Trend Talks: OSHA
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced a final rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee...
Q&A with James Richards
Could you tell our readers a little about your MAX-System ‘One-Time-Setup’ deburring solution?
We’re probably the first people to build a purpose-built CNC-type of deburring...
Tool Coatings and Dry Cutting
There has been a movement in recent years to dispense with the use of coolants in gear cutting. This has been normal practice in...
Metallurgical and heat-treat forensics play important part in determining how and why parts fail
Automobiles and airplanes have been in the news recently — GM cars for ignition recall issues and airplanes because of crashes due to weather,...
Trend Talks: Tim Byrd
With dazzlingly precise multi-axis machines, better technology is leading to better tools, design ideas, and better gears. It’s no surprise: metallurgists have been thinking...
Q&A with Bruce Cox
You provide assessments to ISO/IEC 17025 for calibration laboratories. How has business been?
I do assessments now, that’s the main thing, for the National Voluntary...
Manufacturing DIN 5481 Type Spline Serrations
This month, we will focus on calculating and sizing DIN 5481 type spline serrations for any application. The latest document is a 2009 update...
The Advantages of Net Shape Gears
In this column, every month we are going to explore some very interesting aspects of net shape gears. But first, what are net shape...
The Pressed Blank: A Closer Look
Carbide
Carbide is the basis for most cutting tools used today in non-gear cutting applications. It has been in use approximately 50 years. It cannot...
An armchair guide for predicting results for LPC and atmosphere carburizing
Over the last few years I’ve contributed to discussion and dissection, and have generally peeled away the layers to discover how the LPC and...
Trend Talks: Tim Byrd
Staying in control of a gear business — its products, workforce, and reputation — is a process as meticulous as cutting a gear. For...
Q&A with Brett Froats
You purchased Advanced Cutting Tools in 2007. How has the transition been?
It’s been quite smooth. We recently moved them into our facility in Windsor....
The Casting Process for Gears, Part II
White Iron will Normally Contract at 1/4” per Foot.
Contraction is not always equi-dimensional, in that it is influenced by mass and configuration. Contraction is...
High-Speed Steel
To be effective in cutting a gear, a cutting tool material must have a combination of the following qualities:
• Durability: The ability to withstand—to...
