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30 Nov 2018 21:00 #121654 by Peter_Cassar
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It's a German designed Optimum 2004 see -> www.machineryhouse.com.au/L687

It's back end looks similar to the lathe in the video you linked too. Nice thing about these lathes is the tapered gibs and hardened bed for a machine made in China it has a few bells and whistles. I scrapped all the screw cutting stuff because it was a let down , no back gear or tumbler reverse. I'll open it up again and see what sort of reduction drive I can squeeze in.

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30 Nov 2018 22:13 #121655 by andypugh
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I have my suspicion that "German Designed" means "rip off of the Emco"

www.lathes.co.uk/emco/page2.html

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30 Nov 2018 22:38 #121656 by Peter_Cassar
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You're probably right, it looks very similar. It's probably one of the better products coming out of that country in this market for the money though.

I just tried it out and successfully produced a hexagon in 5/8" brass bar. I realised that the lathe already has the reduction belt drive and bottom speed is 30rpm with useful torque . I think I might look at a larger reduction by fitting different pulleys to get down to 15rpm. 12 sided polygon yields a following error in X at 30rpm . I'd like 12 tooth cutters.

As it is I think I can produce a 6 tooth cutter with form relief , this is far better than fly cutting. I will look at a pre gashed blank to see how cutting goes but a solid blank may be OK and gash after.

This really simplifies a lot of mechanical complexity.

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01 Dec 2018 00:03 #121660 by andypugh
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I have been enjoying this, making relieved gear hobs was on my list of things to try, you have proved the concept out,

I think that I will probably try using lincurve and cunning scaling to generate an asymmetrical form, but this is looking like it can work.

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01 Dec 2018 00:31 #121661 by Peter_Cassar
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Andy, I'm going to try for a sinusoid with at least six peaks. The hobb idea is probably the better way to go for involute gears as only the single point tool is needed ground to the pressure angle. I was thinking about threading with this method to get a lobbed thread, you're thinking ahead. With clock (cycloidal) wheels , they can be hobbed but you need a different hobb for each module and tooth to pinion leaf ratio. Most of the time we are using single wheel cutters per module which is an approximation , so it will be feasible to make a form relieved single gang cutter using the eoffsets per angle as in what we're doing here.

I just found a 40:1 worm drive reduction gearbox in the workshop (2 actually and they could be coupled) , I'll next look at a way of coupling it to the lathe headstock spindle. I'll probably drive it with an auxiliary motor.

It's all very promising.

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01 Dec 2018 00:45 #121662 by andypugh
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The hobb idea is probably the better way to go for involute gears as only the single point tool is needed ground to the pressure angle. I was thinking about threading with this method to get a lobbed thread, you're thinking ahead. With clock (cycloidal) wheels , they can be hobbed but you need a different hobb for each module and tooth to pinion leaf ratio. Most of the time we are using single wheel cutters per module which is an approximation.


Now you have made your CNC relieving lathe, making a gear hobbing machine is relatively trivial...

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01 Dec 2018 01:09 #121664 by Peter_Cassar
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That's on the list of things to do! That looks like a belt driven rotary axis and it works well.

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02 Dec 2018 00:26 #121694 by Peter_Cassar
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Here's a small pic of a sine wave modulation on the end of brass bar. I have added a reduction drive to the spindle to achieve sub 20RPM so that more than 12 peaks can be achieved.
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02 Dec 2018 01:43 - 02 Dec 2018 01:46 #121695 by rodw
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Looks awesome Peter. Great to see the external offsets in action.

It would be very cool if you wrote a component that calculated the involute gear form now.

There is some background and a link to some code on git hub here:
engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/...ute-gear-calculation

Good Luck. I'm sure Andy will help you. Sadly I don't think my maths is strong enough.
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02 Dec 2018 03:04 #121699 by Peter_Cassar
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Rod, I was thinking that as I watched the cutting action, it's not far off how a gear could be produced.
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