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  1. md0501

    Custom Gear Involute Cutter

    I have looked for the hobs online quite a bit but they are difficult to find except on ebay, which I question the quality a little bit. I would prefer to subcontract but with the lead times I have received so far it is much faster to do with my company in house machine shop if we can get the...
  2. md0501

    Custom Gear Involute Cutter

    Hello, I am looking to get a custom involute gear cutter made for a 0.4 module, 20PA tooth profile. I have a local shop that can do tool grinding, but needs exact geometry for the cutter in order to make it. Is there a way to find/calculate what this geometry would be for the cutter? Or if...
  3. md0501

    Planetary Gear Help!

    Thank you for all the help pointing me towards the different standards! I will be looking into Kissoft. We use Creo3 which Geartrax does not support. spigor- I am planning on having 4 planet gears. I checked for interference between the planets and that they can be evenly spaced, and there...
  4. md0501

    Planetary Gear Help!

    Hi mfgenggear, Thank you for the response. I have not looked too much into the backlash, so I will have to run those numbers. The contact ratio calculates to 1.58, which I figured was alright since it is over 1.2. When trying to calculate the profile shift, I do not get any hard values as to...
  5. md0501

    Planetary Gear Help!

    Hello, I am having some issues with a planetary gear system I am working on. All the calculations that I can find seem to be working without any interference. But as soon as I model the system it shows some interference. I used online guides to model the actual involute curve of the gear...

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