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    Gear repair

    Hi. Sometimes it's a very unpleasant situation when it's impossible to quickly find a new gear. I decided to restore the gear, maybe this is not the best way, but for some time it should work.

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    I weld a damaged tooth with an electric arc welding

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    Then after 10-15 minutes of working with this tool)))

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    Result. The gear is almost new

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    Another brilliant exercise in resourcefulness, well done.
    I would be interested in why such robust gears got damaged, I seem to remember they were from a motorcycle gearbox.
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    Good job, nothing wrong with the method.
    I used to have to sit for hours and sometimes more than 2 or 3 days at time building up the worn teeth on 3 and 4 ft diameter gears for oil field equipment then spend days as in several hand grinding the profiles of the very large teeth to some semblance of what I thought the original profile should be. A 150 lb 20 tooth pinion gear was bad enough but the 2000 lb ring gear for a 30" rotary table meant a minimum of 100 lbs of electrodes
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
    A 150 lb 20 tooth pinion gear was bad enough but the 2000 lb ring gear for a 30" rotary table meant a minimum of 100 lbs of electrodes
    Whoa! ---Joe

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    Quote Originally Posted by olderdan View Post
    I would be interested in why such robust gears got damaged, I seem to remember they were from a motorcycle gearbox.
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    Gears from a motorcycle and a car. The reason for the breakage is very simple, There was a nut in the gearbox, it hit the tooth and locked the gears.

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    Thanks Vyacheslav.Nevolya! We've added your Gear Repair Method to our Miscellaneous category,
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    Very nice work.

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    Years ago I had a steering gear in a collector I.H. Cub tractor with a broken tooth. This was before I had a welder etc. Took it to a machine shop and that was how they fixed it. It outlasted the rest of the tractor.

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    Vyacheslav, I have done a similar repair job on a big lathe years ago. But friend, I have to tell you, that you are a recycling sorcerer! You can turn a sows ear into a silk purse. I have worked with Russians and Ukrainians and you people are some of the most resourceful people I have ever met!

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    I also have played this gig, one tooth missing on the main drive gear of an 8 foot gillotine, 3 feet in diameter and 4 inches wide, cast steel, the teeth were half inch thick at the root so i drilled and tapped a row of holes , screwed in mid tempered (grade 5) bolts welded them all together then reprofiled the tooth. I heard from another employee that it was still working long after I left the company



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