Thundair... Please feel free to talk about what-ever... Now I'm interested in hearing about an experimental aircraft... harmonics... heat treat and the usage of variable materials etc...
I have no 4340... I had a piece of 8620 which was already used... and 4140 was what I had left or remaining.. I guess I can go yank a pinion out of a 14 bolt rear and full-anneal it and turn the teeth off of it... and then spline it for the output shaft...
On the old shaft and and gear they both...
If I wanted to heat treat a shaft made from 4140 with the major O.D. @ 2.5"... what would be the ideal temp/amount of time and proper quenching method be?... My gears that I tested have a Rockwell of 62 on the "C" scale... So if anything I'd like to match the hardness or be a little under that...
This is what figured for the Fellows Stub tooth (It seems like Some of Involute Spline formulas and Stub Fellows coinside)...
The only problem I have is the OD matching...
If I use the Involute method I get the desired O.D.
If I use the Fellows Stub method I get an O.D. that is way too small...
Thanks for the sites... I'll be sure to read-up on them... I found a cutter that matched the tooth radius and I counted the offset,height and rotations.. I know this isn't the proper method but... It worked... (on the test piece)... I'll tweak it a little more...
I have a few questions about cutting splines.
I'm not sure what splines these are... and what type of cutter to use...
I'm making a HD Rear Output shaft for my Dana 20 Transfercase... The only thing stopping me from finishing this project is the splines that go into the T-case and into a...