On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 19:51, John Lindo via <bechetboat=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Mike and members. Finally got there with the gear cutting of the 9 T chuck pinions, I think LOL. Only cut one so far, but entering the pinion into the alloy chuck scroll ring/gear, the pinion rotates without? any jamming etc. The acid test will be to cut the other 2 pinion blanks and see if they all marry up. To remove the arrow head created by cutting down a cone, indexer set at 20 degrees, the gear cutter running down the front? portion of cone IE parallel to the X axis, cut 9 divisions, 40 degrees rotation, thus creating the arrow head effect between the teeth. See the 12 line handwritten g code, basically I? tell the machine to do a function, in this case repeat 9 times. This is a very useful code for simple gear cutting. Then with the MPG, CNC, manual pulse generator, hand wheel, rotated the A axis +4 degrees, set A to home 0 degrees and then ran the programme again,? then with the MPG set? to -8 degrees , again reset? A to 0 and ran the programme again.? I could of consolidated basically 3 programmes into 1 but decided not to risk scrapping the phosphor bronze. I agree that there will be so many armchair engineers who will disagree with this approach to making basically an old mangle type set of bevel gears, and yes the 2 cutter approach as seen in your video you attached is the way to go if it was a crown wheel and pinion set for a Formula one drive train. but this works for me and I am confident that the next 2 pinions to be cut if I follow what I just did on the first one then I should be home and dry.? see attachments. Thanks