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  1. gearguru

    Metric Gear Design Question About Dedendum

    A lot of info here. When I worked with metric gears, I used metric units for all calculations; one can easily convert the dimensions to inches when its done and if it is needed. The Swedish designers did the same, I believe. Happy Easter to those who celebrate it.
  2. gearguru

    The history of first satellite ever launched

    Today is another anniversary - the Challenger... But let's go back to the OP: There are 4 books by Boris Chertok about the history of the Soviet rocket industry, available as a free download. Amazing and mostly very honest and very detailed writing by a person who was inside of it all...
  3. gearguru

    25T 1.0 Mod Gear came out wrong. How to measure 'over the wires'?

    If the "backlash" means "clearance" between two gears in mesh, then we need to know the meshing gear data (tooth thickness); or am I wrong?
  4. gearguru

    Planetary Gear Help!

    tbuelna: As I put it before: the 18T/26T/70T configuration will not assemble with 3 equally spaced planets.
  5. gearguru

    Planetary Gear Help!

    If the planets in the planetary with 18T sun, 26T planet, 70T annulus have to be equally spaced, then there can be just 2 or 4 of them.
  6. gearguru

    Spur gear help needed

    Per my calculation no. of teeth on the mating gear should be 64: Center distance then will be 0.8*(11+64)/2 = 30mm (= 1.1811") To create the mating gear more data is needed: pressure angle, tooth thickness, outside dia, root dia...
  7. gearguru

    Unusual Metric Thread Size(s)

    Couple clicks and google found https://amesweb.info/Screws/metric-thread-dimensions-calculator.aspx Be aware: because of the tolerances, the actual dia of the external thread is always smaller than the nominal ( for example the M25 thread has the OD slightly less than 25mm; it allows to safely...
  8. gearguru

    Unusual Metric Thread Size(s)

    3DDave is referring to pitch, not to the OD of the (external) thread. His answer is correct for any metric thread with the 1mm pitch.
  9. gearguru

    Spreadsheet with calculations

    And one more: http://www.hessmer.org/gears/InvoluteSpurGearBuilder.html
  10. gearguru

    Spreadsheet with calculations

    This one looks interesting too. http://www.me-bac.com/index.php?task=gear
  11. gearguru

    Spreadsheet with calculations

    Lately I found several web pages for designing the gears. One of them is https://www.emachineshop.com/gear-design-software/ I did not check for accuracy of their calculations, use it carefully. I think that eventually we could create a list of similar services/apps with our own notes about them.
  12. gearguru

    Spreadsheet with calculations

    I do not remember that; did you try to look around using the "search" option on this page? What exactly are you looking for? I collected some calculations/standards/books/magazine articles; I might have what you need. Keep safe and healthy, fellow engineers!
  13. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    @mfgeggear: I sent an email to the owner of the geargenerator, I believe he is in Hungary. Obviously he is a very skilled programmer. My calculations are mostly done in a spreadsheet, but in the past I also tried to create some simple programs in VB. They still work. Now I am retired and only...
  14. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    I played with the geargenerator again. There is the option to create the internal gears as well. (in gear properties click on the box "internal". I was wrong in my previous entry. Very clever program. Now I'll check if I can enter my own major and minor diameters...
  15. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    Well, mfgenggear is a very reliable source and "old" and knowledgeable member of this site too. Actually everybody in this thread brought interesting and valuable input. @mfgenggear : Thanks for the interesting links. The geargenerator web is nicely done, but does not allow to enter the tooth...
  16. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    I used the following data to model the tooth geometry: module or diametral pitch # of teeth pressure angle at pitch dia tooth thickness at pitch dia (which is measured as arc length) major dia minor dia Then you will also need to model the root geometry so that it does not interfere with the...
  17. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    How are you modeling it? Do you have the points on the involute flanks calculated? Years ago I created an OpenOffice spreadsheet for a friend to do just that. He then used the calculated coordinates to create a "script" (in DraftSight) to draw the curves and completed the tooth geometry (root...
  18. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    For reverse calculation (tooth thickness from the size over pins) check this: http://www.zakgear.com/Over_Pins_Reverse.html Splines and spur gears have helical angle zero; for the helical gears it will be non-zero value. Because the helical angle changes by the diameter, both the angle and dia...
  19. gearguru

    Help! New Engineer Need help identifying CV shaft spline standard

    Check the calculations/reverse calculations on this site: http://zakgear.com/
  20. gearguru

    Enginnering history books with technical details

    Here is link to NASA History e-books section: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/history_ebooks_archive_1.html More about Chertok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Chertok

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