What books are a good place to start on gears? This is looking at gears used for positioning mechanisms and rotational movement.
No truck transmissions, just applications useful for lathe and mill work.
What books are a good place to start on gears? This is looking at gears used for positioning mechanisms and rotational movement.
No truck transmissions, just applications useful for lathe and mill work.
To apply them. Cutting will come a bit later.
To apply them, or to machine them?
For history/background take a look at
for making gears in the home shop and a more technical discussion on, and calculations of both cycloid and involute gears see
The videos from Little machine Shop are also highly recommended by others on this NG. I have not seen it myself.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 17 March 1814.
Ordered. I had seen that when searching Borders.com, just didn't know if it was worth it.
Gear cutting practice - Colvin and Stanley - Lindsay Publications (1937) Reprint. I highly suggest you get this even if you find a wonderful college text.
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Found it.
the two best books I've seen and bought on gears are
Machinery's Handbook expensive but explains all the common standards for gears and gear cutters ...among a million other things related to machining.
Ivan Law's book 'Gears and gearcutting' published for about $20 aus by the people who publish Model Engineer in England. an absolutely clear explanation of the theory and how to go about gear cutting in a home setup.
Stealth Pilot
I've got #25, it leaves me wanting more.
On order.
Perhaps you're looking for engineering design information. If so, try
My old 3rd edition of Spotts, 'Design of Machine Elements' offers 48 pages on spur gears
Boston Gear has a free tech file on gear theory:
Wikipedia offers what looks like an extensive discussion:
DAGS:
David Merrill
snip...
3d edition, 1955
Good book, worth the money.
Nick
See if you can find a used, older edition. Or two or three.
As technology changes, the editors remove some stuff (like blacksmithing and metal shapers, and add other stuff, like CNC code and polycristaline coated tools.
As examples, above!
Dunno about your area, but I can find the odd older copy in a used bookstore for around $20 or sometimes less.
Cheers Trevor Jones
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