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Bevel gears or miter gears?
Bevel gears are gears that have intersecting axes and tooth-bearing faces that are conically shaped or tapered....
Best heat treatment for gears?
Heat treating is a very key production step during the gear manufacturing process. This can represent up...
Gerotor Gear Pumps
Gerotors are positive displacement pumps that are used in a variety of applications. The name Gerotor is...
MIM or Investment Casting?
Investment casting is one of the oldest metal working techniques, and refers to the process in which molten...
Gear Hobbing, Dry vs. Wet
Gear hobbing is a manufacturing technique to cut gear teeth and is one of the fundamental processes...
How Bevel Gears Are Made?
Bevel gears are gears designed to transmit motion between intersecting axes. The important features of these gears are...
Spur Gear applications
Spur gears are basically cylinders or disks with radially projecting teeth that have straight edges and are aligned...
Types of splines used in shaft / gear manufacturing
Splines can be thought of as a series of axial keyways with mating keys machined onto a...
Why choose ring and pinion gears
There are several ways to transfer the torque load from the driveline 90 degrees to the wheels...
Advantages of Magnetic Deburring
Manufacturers of small, non-ferrous precision parts are often faced with the challenge of deburring the part —...