Month: March 2018

Most of the gearboxes I have been involved with use single helical gears. Its excellent power capacity per mesh makes it the default system for […]

A few weeks ago, I admitted to not knowing much about the Klingelnberg system of bevels. Terry Edwards, chief designer at Pacific Star Marine in […]

Continuing our discussion of the “least you need to know” about worm gearing: 5. Efficiency is highly variable for worms. If it is critical to […]

Worm gearing has long been a big part of the mechanical world. If you work in the gear trade, “civilians” will rightly expect you to […]

It is difficult to know where to start when writing about worm gears, because this market segment has defied “standardization” within the United States. The […]

Does technical lingo confuse you? If so, welcome to the bevel gear sector and its special kind of hell. The same “system” that benefited from […]

Continuing with bevel gears… As a beginning gear guy, I was very content to leave the bevel gear design to the experts. If my employer […]

We cannot leave our lesson about tooth depths without covering bevel gears. There is a tendency to think of bevels and worms as being best […]

How did that over pin calculation work out? My congratulations if you managed to work your way through it without tearing your hair out. Guess […]