New Project Launch! Another Gear Machine! (Go Figure….)
Sketches, design thoughts, bevel gear example and some next steps. Maybe a little more of a peek behind the curtain than some might want, but I will make up for it in the next video.
Sketches, design thoughts, bevel gear example and some next steps. Maybe a little more of a peek behind the curtain than some might want, but I will make up for it in the next video.
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Can’t wait to watch the gear fabrication
@thomasstover6272
16 күн бұрын
Getting started … more soon!
I'm looking forward to watching this. I want to learn more about gear cutting!
@thomasstover6272
25 күн бұрын
@@MyLilMule Careful what you wish for! Well, there’s lots of room in that particular rabbit hole!
looks like a fun project.
I’m looking forward to your project.
@thomasstover6272
16 күн бұрын
Thanks! More on the way!
Oh wow! This is going to be great! Really looking forward to this! If you have time, can you explain the lay-out for the frame of the attachment you're making? I'm building my first clock for my pole barn. It's big and gaudy, but I'm confident it'll work. My weakness will be the frame to hold it all together without exploding, lol. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. It's greatly appreciated.
@thomasstover6272
14 күн бұрын
@@sky173 I need to do a better sketch anyway, so I’ll try to lay out the approach. Sometimes this stuff is clearer in my head than on the drawing, for sure!
Intriguing!
Looking forward to seeing your vision come to life. Really lost on the 'why' though. You have the Universal table. You have the Low Speed Gearbox. Seems I need to go back & watch your videos on hobbing to correct / grow my understanding. Keep up the good work!
@thomasstover6272
27 күн бұрын
Sometimes I get lost in the why, too! Doing my own design, and building a machine that works properly is a big part of it, for sure. Whatever skill I have has been learned by doing stuff like this, and I’ll learn a thousand new things with this project by the time it’s done. That’s my story…for what it’s worth.
Super excited to see how this all works out! I've got a Van Norman No. 10, and it's already an incredibly versatile machine...It would be awesome to be able to hob gears on it, too. Using the shaft on the opposite side of the head is a stroke of genius. I don't know that I'd have ever thought about that... You've got my cranial gears turning, thinking of the possibilities.
@thomasstover6272
27 күн бұрын
Thanks! Stay tuned…this won’t be easy or quick, but it will be fun! The VN was a find for sure…now I’m completely in love with it!
@fna-wrightengineering
27 күн бұрын
@@thomasstover6272 I'm here for it! Projects like this are fun to see unfold. I share the sentiment! I love my VN mill. I modernized mine to make it even more versatile... I put DRO scales on all the axes (ram and saddle are summed), and have a tablet running TouchDRO. I also modified the machine to make it compatible with my Tormach TTS quick-change tooling.
@thomasstover6272
27 күн бұрын
@@fna-wrightengineering Cool! How has your experience been with TouchDRO? I’ve mounted conventional DRO systems on a couple other machines, and I’m looking at Touch for this one. Also, if you feel like sharing some photos of your setup…scale mounting and such…I’d find that very helpful!
@fna-wrightengineering
27 күн бұрын
@@thomasstover6272 TouchDRO is awesome! I've got an adapter and scales on all my machines, including my shaper. The UI in the app is way more intuitive, and far more feature-rich than the "standard" DRO setups I've seen. The touch probe functionality in particular, in conjunction with the tool library, is awesome (especially now that you can probe in Z). Indicating parts is an absolute breeze, and having tool offsets applied makes it super easy to machine a part without even having to measure (I recently posted a video about doing that). I plan on making a video soon, detailing my Van Norman... It'll be the start of a series, of rebuilding the quick-return system for the X-axis power feed.
@thomasstover6272
27 күн бұрын
@@fna-wrightengineering thanks for this! I will check out you video, and look forward to more!
Good day, new video. Can't wait to follow along. Thanks for the interesting content. Very cool stuff.
@thomasstover6272
16 күн бұрын
Welcome aboard!
Nice project, i'm in!
@thomasstover6272
16 күн бұрын
Great!
Gday Tom, I’m really looking forward to seeing this all come to together, nicely explained mate, cheers
@thomasstover6272
16 күн бұрын
Thanks, Matty!
You said you want to make a hobbing head that will attach to the milling head but actually the head will have to attach to the table in order for the gear to be traversed across the hob. All you need is a dividing head to point straight up holding the gear blank and then rotate the head to the proper angle for the hob and the helix of the gear and then feed straight up. Thats basically how an actual hobber works except the hob feeds instead of the gear.
@thomasstover6272
28 күн бұрын
The hob spindle mounts to the mill head. The work spindle mounts to the table, which feeds upwards to move the blank thru the hob. It doesn’t really matter which one moves as long as they come together properly! Oddly enough, this isn’t the first hobbing machine that I have designed and built. 😊
@TheJohndeere466
28 күн бұрын
@@thomasstover6272 I know i seen your other machine. A hobber moves the hob rather than the gear. I think this makes the all the drive shafts much easier and its easier to swivel the hob. As I mentioned in another reply why dont you just buy a hobber. I bought my barber colman hobber from hgr for 600. I bet you paid more than that for the van norman. We bought a much newer barber colman at work and I think we paid 5,000 for it. Cancel Reply Cancel Reply
@TNBen60
28 күн бұрын
You have really rather missed the point.
@timogross8191
25 күн бұрын
I guess buying a hobber would be a little "boring". There seems to be not really a rule how "an actual hobber" works. (in fact after Tom is done, it will be "an actual hobber") For larger workpiece diameters with big modules usually a vertical workpiece spindle is common. Machines for spline shafts or watch gears, often have horizontal workpiece spindles. Then again some move the hob, some move the table with the horizontal workpiece. It is really all about relative movement and suitable geometry. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5eTpMOfpai9frw.html
@thomasstover6272
25 күн бұрын
@@timogross8191 indeed.
I admire your ambition but I bought my barber colman hobber at hgr for 600.00
@timogross8191
25 күн бұрын
Haha, I tried to find something 2nd hand, but they were all at least 10x that (and nothing in working order).
If you just really like to make gears Ill give you my hobber and pay you to make gears for me. I build gears for John deere pulling tractor transmissions. I just dont have the time to make them.