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    R-8 Modular Gear Cutter Arbor

    In my last post I had built a dividing fixture for cutting some 3 Modular gears, I mentioned that I would post the arbor for holding the cutter when it was done.

    There was a lot of work making the indexing fixture and arbor but they came out very nice, Would had been a lot easier to buy a dividing head and be done with it, But that takes all the fun out of it, Besides isn't that what this site is all about ? Making tools and sharing ideas?

    The gears I'm making are a 3 Mod with 30 teeth which takes a number 5 cutter, Got 2 of those off E-Bay pretty reasonably priced.

    I'm making a total of 9 gears of all the same dimensions, I ganged up 3 at a time on the indexers mandrel and started making chips.

    Below are some photos of the arbor, indexer , and the gear teeth being cut on the mill.

    As always, thanks for looking and happy Machining

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    R-8 Modular Gear Cutter Arbor-100_0831.jpg

    Above shows the arbor and it's components

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    Above shows another view of the arbor , Note the spring loaded dowel pin which serves as keyway, being spring loaded allows me to mount any thickness cutter and have a full length for key driving the cutter, the arbor washer will push the pin into the reamed hole to what ever depth it needs to be.

    R-8 Modular Gear Cutter Arbor-100_0833.jpg

    Another view

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    Assembled

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    Above shows all the tooling and 3 gear blanks

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    Above shows the gear teeth being cut, The gears are made from 4140 annealed steel, After the machining is done the teeth will be heat treated

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    Another view of the teeth being cut

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    A view of the indexing arrangement on the indexer

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    Last edited by rossbotics; Sep 10, 2016 at 12:18 PM.
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    Thanks rossbotics! We've added your Gear Cutter Arbor to our Machining category, as well as to your builder page: rossbotics' Homemade Tools. Your receipt:


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    Nice work, well done

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    Beautiful work on the Arbor, Doug! Thanks for sharing this and your gear cut with us also. Your projects are always a real inspiration!! Interesting that you gang cut the 3 gears, definitely would save time. They look to be about .75 thick each and the shaft on the indexer is 1"...any deflection or did you take multiple passes per tooth? Just a novice and was thinking about the 1.5D rule of thumb. Have an idea for something that uses a small rack and pinion and some concerns about holding the small rack vertically during cutting. Thanks again. ~PJ
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    Thanks PJs
    There were no deflection in the mandrel at all. The gears were .787" thick. The outer diameter is 3.776". I took the whole depth of the tooth in one pass. The whole depth of the tooth is .266". I didn't have a problem at all.

    Thank you very much for your compliment.
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    Hi Doug,

    More great work and photography! Your Gear Cutter Arbor is the 'Tool of the Week'!

    Since you've already received one of our official HomemadeTools.net T-shirts, we'd be glad to award you a $25 online gift card!

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    Great job, the need to index accurately just seems to come up so often in the shop that having multiple ways to achieve it is most useful.

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    Doug, WOW that is some classy metal work there, I was thinking of buying the dividing plates for my rotary table now I am rethinking that idea .. :O)

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    Doug, is that a cold air gun you were using to cut the gears? If so what do you think of the cold gun? Where else do you use it?

    Thanks for posting.

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    No Ralph
    That's just a air coolant nozzle with soluble oil diluted, I just cleaned up everything before I took the pictures

    Thanks for asking
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