I am looking at making a few different involute tooth planetary gearsets, predominantly using EDM machining, with a post EDM surface treatment (to remove re-casting). I cannot say for sure that "production" will move away from EDM to be certain, but the process may move to broaching or hobbing...
Needing to remake a splined shaft in higher strength material ("can't" resize currently... out of my hands, don't get me started). So far it seems that C300 /Vasco Max is what I'm looking for. Are there any other "latest and greatest" high yield high fatigue life, tough alloys? Or maybe...
I have been very interested in block fillers, specifically block fillers for aluminum engine blocks. Originally these were used in iron blocks, and were aggregates similar to precision grouts (Embecco 885 or Masterflow 885). More recently things like Loctite PC 9020 have been used with some...
