Gears

HPC Gears do a nice little catalogue, pocket-diary sized but 3/4" thick. although ISTR that their gears are fairly expensive at several pounds for a 20-toother.

Also ISTR that you can't get every size - some of the prime numbers above 30 teeth are not available.

The other approach, and much more respectable for a _REAL_ engineer is to cut them yourself.

Yes, I have requested a catalogue -but they don't have any details or prices online

Wot? You mean start up the lathe and mill the buggers from blanks?

You take us for injunears or summat?

There's been quite a lot published over the last 5 years, including info on making your own cutters, (although it's not obvious to me just from the drawings alone how the "Eureka" form tool does its job of relieving cutters.)

("Last year I couldn't spell, "Eng> > HPC Gears do a nice little catalogue, pocket-diary sized

Few things seem to be obvious to you Gareth. Next you will be claiming everyone else is wrong and invent your own methods.

Maybe you could patent the idea and we could buy shares in your company.

So, at last you have a qualification. A NVQ. Well done Gareth.

Kevin,

Another supplier is S.H.Muffett

I've also dealt with HPC mentioned by others, and they were also excellent to deal with for small one-off lots. It's worth waiting on their catalogue if you are ordering it - it's over 800 pages and packed with detail, so you might understand why they don't have all that data on the web :-)

Jim.

Thanks Jim,

I'll drop them an email tomorow. They don't have exactly the gears I wanted, but they have closer ones than RS did.

Regards

Kevin

Kevin,

Not all of Muffett's catalogue appears to be online - at least their online PDF files don't cover everything in my copy of their catalogue which I got a year or two ago - e.g. no cross helical gears. Or maybe they have cut down their product list.

HPC have a much greater product range, so maybe wait on getting their catalogue.

Jim.

I have used a firm in Hertford - Huco Ltd.

They have always been well priced and quick to supply. They are a UK branch of a German company that originally (and still does) supply "spares" for newspaper print machines.

They do timing gears, belts, sprockets, chains etc. etc.

No connection except as a satisfied customer.

Cheers

Peter

Kev> Can anybody reccomend a gear supplier for small standard gears (metal,

NVQ for the YTS

Not Very Quick for the Young Thick & Stupid.

YTS = Youth Termination Scheme

Kevin, try HPC gears at

My HPC catalogue arrived the other day, which has every gear I could ever want. You could spend a fortune there without any trouble though!

Regards

Kev>>> Can anybody reccomend a gear supplier for small standard gears (metal,