That said, I have been extremely flexible and hopefully considerate when it comes to assisting members here, and most especially the Monarch forum, in consideration of the vast benefits I myself have reaped from the help of other members.
I'll post a note when I am getting ready to make the box gears and those that have desire can contact us.
That consideration has been appreciated, I am sure, and no one who has shop rates or just basic business sense expects you to work for just break-even.
As gears are 'what you do', it might not be unreasonable to see if more members and/or Monarch Lathe LP - who, AFAIK - are at least not 'specialists' in gear making - might have enough interest to get a run up to 30, maybe 50, sets or so.
With my bean-counter hat on at a SWAG-angle, a hundred is probably more than such 10EE's that need them will be blessed with a spend on.
Reduction gears just are not used that often by many of their minders, but if affordable 'enough'... might attract a spend, much as good quality paint and prep do - those not adding directly to more precise work, whilst sound, new, gears
could do - at least now and then.
Fair certain I'll be in for two sets, even just 'guessing' at probable price.
It will need a bespoke PM thread as with the metric sets to find if there are many more seekers, or only a few, once you've sorted whether it even fits your plans at all, of course.
I'd love to have quiet Herringbone - or at least helical cut - gears in there, but pretty sure it borders on the impossible to do that as arranged, driven, dog-clutched, and in the space available and not end up too fragile for their 'mission'.
Bill