[SEL] Sorta O/T..gear making

Tommy Turner lcjudge at scrtc.com
Wed Jan 26 18:16:19 PST 2005


JB,

    I've done the same thing several times with good results.  I've 
found it best to purchase  the crank gear and the cam gear and replace 
them both.  Some of the old timers had an odd ball pitch on their 
teeth.  I had a friend who needed a gear made and the guy who cut it for 
him had to have a special cutter ground to match the other gear.  Some 
of the real early manufacturers may have ground their own cutters and as 
a result, it was their own "design".

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



jbcast at charter.net wrote:

>>What is the best route to take to get gear(s) made?  One is a combination 
>>i.e. two gears, one casting.  I also need a smaller gear...all straight cut 
>>teeth.  This is for manually traversing the carriage on my ole lathe.  Could 
>>the old ones be used for a pattern and is this something Rick Rowlands could 
>>do?
>>
>>    
>>
>Rick, get a Boston Gear or Rush Gear catalog, see if the gears are available, width may be a little different, the center is adaptable also. On my lathe I machined the hub and made a ring gear out of the new gear, heated and shrunk it on and pinned it. On the double gear, if only one is bad, bore it out amd press it on a shaft, bore the new gear and press it next to it.
>J.B. Castagnos
>Belle Rose, LA 
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