Worm gear tooth forms, including the five standardized forms produced by milling or grinding...
There is a wide choice in tooth forms, each form with its own share of merits and demerits depending on the application. Several forms...
Debate: Generator manufactured endothermic gas vs. nitrogen-methanol as a carburizing atmosphere
Recently in my world the topic of nitrogen-methanol as a carburizing atmosphere has emerged as an item of interest by an existing user seeking...
Q&A with Dean Burrows
Give us a little background information on the joint venture between Gear Motions and KBE+.
I’d be glad to. About four years ago I sat...
Terry McDonald: Site Safety
It seems to me that many companies have starting taking on more of an educational role in recent years than they did in the...
Requirements for more-intricate gear designs call for a knowledge of the best manufacturing processes...
The gear blank design is frequently influenced by the cost. The ideal blank is finished with the final bore perpendicular to the face and...
With proper design, pusher furnaces have many advantages
When anyone familiar with the high production carburizing of gears is asked to offer an opinion about pusher furnaces, they inevitability say “what else...
Q&A: Bruce Neumiller
Tell us a little about your background, and how you came to found Gearbox Express with your partners.
I’ve always been involved in gearing, first...
For carburizing, quenching gears, pusher furnaces outpace drivetrain carburizing when compared to other furnace...
In the heyday of high-volume carburizing during the sixties and seventies, all of the automotive OEM’s maintained their own in-house heat treats; commercial job...
Q&A with Mark Tomlinson
In light of President Obama’s emphasis on creating manufacturing jobs in the United States, what do you see as the best path forward?
The...
Terry McDonald: Site Safety
Gear manufacturers are active people. We’re generally out on the shop floor, or traveling to meet with customers at their facilities, but many of...
As gear requirements grow more intricate, a knowledge of the best processes for different...
The universal demand for gears necessitates that they be produced in many geometric forms, numerous materials, and in a wide range of quality levels...
Terry McDonald: Site Safety
We have discussed the concept of developing a safety program at your workplace many times. I have provided examples from my own background, and...
Wrapping up a discussion of the different types of worm gears and the wide...
In the early part of the 1920s the automobile reached high production rates using rear axle drives with worm gear ratios of 4:1 and...
Only the plasma process can come close to matching CGN’s speed with equal or...
With the reach of the Internet and its influence on technology sharing, you would think that by now we in the United States would...
Q&A with Tom Downs
Congratulations on your recent promotion. Tell us a little about your background.
Thank you. It’s a real honor that our president, Andy Lachat, has...
Terry McDonald: Site Safety
I doubt that many of us have completely avoided crossing paths with a bully or two in our lives. The first encounter may have...
Part two of a discussion on the different types of worm gears and the...
This month we will discuss threads, effective length, and tooth thickness: The worm may be designed with any number of threads, or as they...
Russian Catalytic Gas Nitriding process has migrated to the U.S., could alter thinking of...
Heat treating is often a conflict in terms: Heat, then cool as fast as possible while trying to reduce distortion. Case hardening steel is...
Q&A with Jack Estes
Tell us the story behind Partners in THINC.
Okuma introduced THINC—The Intelligent Numerical Control—in 2004, which is a PC-based operating platform using the Okuma Sampling...
Terry McDonald: Site Safety
Everybody knows there’s a shortage of qualified workers in manufacturing here in the United States. There are a lot of organizations out there doing...
