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Paul K. Dickman


Glenn Lyford wrote in message ...
Unfortunately, when the lathe was made, the standard seemed to be
even diametral pitches within this size range. The new standard
is 20-18-16-12-10..., so finding 14 DP gear cutters is problematic.
Of course, there's nothing to say that I need to keep using this
pitch of gear, either. I could conceivably use any pitch between
about 18 and 10, as long as I had enough gears to do the entire
train, and had enough meat to bore the hubs to 1" ID (the shaft
size at both the spindle output and quick change input).

Then you set the blank horizontal, on center with the cutter and use
the cross feed to feed in to depth of cut on each tooth.

That gets around having to use a milling attachment, at least.
Thanks.

--Glenn Lyford