‘Worm Gears’
A Manufacturingtalk guide
Start with the news release
Sigma 20 lathe machines scaled model racecar parts from
Tornos Technologies, which we summarised at the time by saying "Titanium Racing has installed a Tornos Sigma 20 CNC automatic sliding headstock lathe, which it says is leading to growing orders for its range of scaled parts for model racing cars.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Motorised torque arm meets AGMA standard from
Baldor: "Baldor Electric has announced that a motorised version of the Dodge torque arm shaft-mounted speed reducer will be making its European debut at Hillhead 2010.".
In March 2010, we covered the news from Wenzel
- take a look at Ondrives selects Inova gear for measuring accuracy
which says: "Wenzel has announced that it has sold its first Inova gear to Ondrives.".
Take a look also at the news release from HK Technologies, HK supplies CNC tools for machining transmissions,
as well as Guide to selecting rolling bearings for gearboxes from NSK,
and Arbor for components with 500mm bore-diameters from Schunk Intec.
Latest stories...
Kubota B2420 tractor works in confined spaces (February 2010)
Kubota has unveiled the B2420 24hp tractor, which the company said is a user-friendly machine that is powerful, reliable and durable.
Hardinge to preview rotary table at Westec show (January 2010)
Hardinge will preview the new GD160LP rotary table at the upcoming Westec exhibition.
Yale launches forklift truck for heavy industry (January 2010)
Yale has launched the 8-9 tonne-capacity Veracitor VX forklift truck, designed for the lumber, steel, concrete, brewing and chemical industries.
Eriks repairs bakery's sealed motor gearbox unit (January 2010)
Northern Foods was kept running during the worst of the recent snowy weather thanks to a repair by Eriks on an unusual sealed motor gearbox unit at its Gunstones bakery in Sheffield.
LMT installs turn-mill centre in German factory (January 2010)
LMT has installed five-axis simultaneous-machining centres and a turn-mill centre worth over GBP3.5m at LMT Fette's Schwarzebek manufacturing facility in Germany.
CXT overhead cranes for warehouse complex (December 2009)
Ferrocut has installed Konecranes CXT overhead cranes at its factory and warehouse complex, located in the Techport Australia industry hub near Adelaide.
HD motor mounts improve equipment capabilities (November 2009)
ITC is offering the HD range of Air Turbine motor mounts, which is aimed at improving the capability of robots, routing and deburring machines and turning centres.
Gibbs produces gears on Citizen CNC machine (November 2009)
Gibbs Gears Precision Engineers produces around 200,000 of its gears at its Stoke Mandeville subcontract and development machine shop on a Citizen M32-V CNC sliding-head mill-turn centre.
Further reading
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Dual lead worm gears work either way
Dual lead worm gear sets are said to be ideally suited for use in positional machinery as they provide a kinematically correct gear, which can run in either direction of rotation.
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Worm gears: a mature technology still evolving
A number of initiatives in the evolution of wormgears are leading both to higher accuracy and also greater efficiency in gear performance, as this article from Holroyd explains
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