cutting gears

[dallen]

Hi Rick

the way that I plan to do the gears is to bore the blanks out to shaft size then mount them on the arbor and put it in the lathe and turn to the working OD then mount them in the mill and cut the teeth on the blank. I am in the process of trying to purchase a horizonal mill which is older then I am by some years so its going to take some work to get it up and running (not to much I hope) my plans are to get it running and set up the indexer on it and leave it there till I get the gears cut that I am needing.

I would put it on the Mini MIll but its way to small to get everything onto the table, and I have other projects in the works that I hate to tie up my bigger mill with the indexer just to have to take it back off.

I missed out and a Cincinnati #2 Horizonal mill in and auction in kansas that sold for 210 dollars, but a machine that size is way overboard for me.

DA