Awl--

My buddy's 13x40 Clausing-Colchester wore itself out, needed a gear in the
front carriage power feed ditty.
Yeah, Clausing wants $800 for one gear, about 3.5" diam, 54 tooth.
Goodgawd....

Dare I say it--but another gigantic PV??

Fortunately, my buddy makes gears, so this wasn't the biggest deal in the
world--he could make 40 for $800!

How he did it is pretty neat. Not having any cast iron to match the gear
material, he bought an oversized gear from a local power place, turned off
the teeth, redid the ID, and cut the teeth.

Ackshooly not hard iffin yer familiar w/ gear cutting indexers, at least for
non-exotic stuff. Pretty tricky, otherwise. Can also do them in a 4th axis
in a VMC, much more straightforward.

But for people not set up to cut gears, that is one whopping bill--never
mind the labor involved in the tear-down/rebuild, etc.

All this sorta makes me nervous about running my machines....
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll