Month: November 2017

I rambled on about herringbone gear in my last posting but still have more to share on these once commonplace gears. Today we’ll cover the […]

It was brought to my attention that the graphics used in my recent “herringbone” postings actually show double helical gears. I have a great support […]

We have many international readers here at Gear Technology who may wonder about this most American of holidays — Thanksgiving. Most countries have a full […]

The last stronghold for herringbones was — and remains — the venerable oil field pumpjack gearbox. Although known by a variety of other names, nothing […]

Imagine for a moment that your boss invented the herringbone tooth form and tasked you with building machines to cut them. This was the situation […]

I try to avoid technical matters here in the blog on the grounds that we have an entire magazine to cover the “hard stuff.” Besides, […]

Gear Expo was a wonderful opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones. While I was out collecting swag, purely in support of my […]

One of the neat things about the Gear Expo is seeing people you once worked with. Sometimes though, they remember your interactions in greater detail […]

My last blog covered the motivation for the Swag of the Expo award and my inspiration in creating it. Top contenders that did not quite […]