Hard Choices: Diamond or CBN?
A careful comparison between diamond and cubic boron nitride (CBN) will eventually result in a clear decision when it comes to choosing an appropriate...
Guarding Against Gearing Deviations
In the June 2005 issue of Gear Solutions magazine we presented an article entitled "An Elementary Guide to Gear Inspection," which was followed by...
SPECIAL SERIES | Layout Guides Part 2: Spiral and Zerol Bevel Gears
This is the second of a three-part series of instructions to assist engineering designers and detailers with the process of correctly laying out bevel...
Case Study: Hard Finishing at Nixon Gear
How does a small private job shop work its way into a premier hard finishing shop? As Nixon Gear approaches its 90th birthday —...
Pure Powder, Pure Power!
In many of today's applications for powder metallurgical steels, the requirements on the material increase consistently. Tool users are seeking improvements to achieve increased...
SPECIAL SERIES | Layout Guides
This series is intended to provide design engineers working on right angle geared applications with the knowledge necessary to further their work in-house with...
Coming Clean on Washing Technologies
The techniques for manufacturing gears and gear components do not differ dramatically from other industries. Precision cutting, grinding, polishing, and buffing are all part...
Control Solutions for Maximized Manufacturing
American gear manufacturing companies are under increasing pressure to maximize productivity while reducing cost and obtaining consistent quality parts in order to compete with...
The Geometry of Full-Form Grinding
Grinding helical gear teeth or other helical forms such as drill flutes by the method of advancing a grinding wheel along a helical path...
Reverse Engineering the Right Way
Reverse engineering — the deconstruction and analysis of an object for the purpose of constructing a copy or replacement of the original component when...
A New Standard in Gear Inspection
In the June 2005 issue of Gear Solutions magazine we presented an article entitled "An Elementary Guide to Gear Inspection." This article will introduce...
The Straight Track on Gear Racks
In some cases the pinion, as the source of power, drives the rack for locomotion. This would be typical in a drill press spindle...
Allaying Failure with Nitrogen Alloy Bearings
This study shows that a clear reduction of wear and the probability of bearing failures can be achieved for miniature and small-size bearings by...
Gearing Up for Improved Performance
Innovative engineering design, advanced materials, and top of the line components can yield significant improvements in gearbox efficiency, reliability, and performance. Consider two recent...
The Good Life for Reconditioned Thread Grinders
How many times can a thread grinder be reincarnated? So far, four--but stay tuned. Twenty-eight Jones & Lamson thread grinders at Delphi Automotive have...
An Animated Approach to Plotting Profiles
Trochoid Spiral (TS) and Epitrochoidal Spiral (ETS) curves and special flash animations were developed by the author in 2004 and 2005 for nonintersecting and...
Case Study: KAPP Technologies
The Challenge
Fulton Precision Industries, Inc., operates a 78,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Since 1995, Fulton has been providing contract-machining services for companies...
Motor City Magic
When my flight landed at 4:30 that afternoon, Carla Conner-Penzabene — who is director of sales for the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau...
The Fundamentals of Honing Filtration
In today's manufacturing environment it is essential that every process be as efficient and cost effective as possible. Operating costs must be minimized in...
No Tools? No Problem.
Over the past few years we have seen several trends in the gear-manufacturing industry, to which we supply our line of precision workholding devices....
