ranchak
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2007
- Location
- Southern California
I have a three small gears that a customer wants made. One gear is .854" in diameter, .199" thick with 34 teeth. It appears to be injection molded out of some plastic. I would like to make this gear out of acetal. I have a Hardinge Conquest with C axis and live tooling. I originally thought about using a custom ground tool and "shaping" the gear teeth. I saw that WTO makes a hobbing unit Gear Hobbing, but I'm sure the job won't cover the cost of this unit.
I have checked in to a few places that specialize in gears, two have not responded and the one came back with a price of that was what I considered to be high. If anyone here is interested or knows of anyone that specializes in this let me know and I will send you a picture.
But back to the original topic, any thoughts??
The quantities will be around 500 -1000 pieces of each gear
I have checked in to a few places that specialize in gears, two have not responded and the one came back with a price of that was what I considered to be high. If anyone here is interested or knows of anyone that specializes in this let me know and I will send you a picture.
But back to the original topic, any thoughts??
The quantities will be around 500 -1000 pieces of each gear