Cutting tool developer Sandvik Coromant introduced a light cutting insert for its CoroMill 170 precision gear-milling cutter. The new -PL geometry flank insert reduces cutting forces, it reported, ...

There is a second dimension to the gear making process, which opens new potential for the century-old technique. Mark Grizotsky of Thornhill, Ontario, writes: We discovered new possibilities in the ...

The entire gear is cut as part of a single process, without interim removal/reinsertion of the gear blank or manual tool changeover. NUM China has helped Betek to accelerate the development of a ...

You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own ...