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4 Types of Gear Failure to Watch Out For

Gears are moving parts in complex systems, and as a result, they tend to deal with a lot of wear and tear over time. Even flawlessly machined gears, composed of ideal materials that are taken care of appropriately, can eventually fail. When this happens, your entire system can be compromised, and of course, you’ll have … Continued

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Boosting Efficiency and Precision: Using Gear Hobbing for Gear Production

When it comes to gear manufacturing, speed and precision are paramount. The ability to produce gears quickly while maintaining impeccable accuracy provides gear manufacturers with the opportunity to produce parts for a wide range of applications. One gear manufacturing technique that can help speed up production, improve precision, and reduce costs is hobbing. What is … Continued

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Five Reasons to Outsource Your Gearing Project

What roadblock are you facing that slows down your production cycle or prevents you from growing your gearing business? Is it flexibility? Capacity? Knowledge? Remove the problems preventing you from keeping up with customer demands by outsourcing your high-quality gear projects to an experienced partner who can help you: Simplify the manufacturing process Facilitate growth … Continued

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What Could Cause a Gear to “Fail” in a System?

In an ideal world, your machinery would run forever, and you wouldn’t have to worry about its internal components no longer performing optimally. Unfortunately, you may eventually experience gear failure, or the inability of a gear to do its job. Gear failure can result when a gear is unable to turn, or when it isn’t … Continued

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What’s the Process for Creating a Spur Gear?

The gear manufacturing world is more complicated than most people realize, but almost everyone can recognize the conventional shape of a spur gear; it’s the shape you likely imagine when you picture a “gear” in your mind. Spur gears are one of the simplest and most practical gears, so while they aren’t a perfect fit … Continued

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The Perks of Precision in Gear Manufacturing

When it comes to gear manufacturing, precision makes all the difference. Every stage of the manufacturing process needs the right amount of attention to detail to create reliable, long-lasting gears. Four reasons why precision is important in gear manufacturing Better structural integrity Gears that have been designed professionally, with keen attention to detail, have better … Continued

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Rack and Pinion 101: What You Need to Know

Rack and pinion gearsets are a type of linear actuator, designed to translate rotational motion into linear motion. In other words, it takes the rotational motion of something like a gear, and turns it into a forward-or-backward motion. Rack and pinion gears are just one of our gear manufacturing capabilities, and you should know exactly … Continued

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How Gear Manufacturing Can Overcome the Backlash Problem

In some gear systems, too much or too little backlash can be a problem. Fortunately, there are a few techniques we can use when manufacturing gears to insure proper backlash.   Too much backlash and the gear mesh is sloppy, too little backlash and the gears have a potential to bind.  Because of this it is … Continued

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