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Hi Fellow Machinists
Yesterday I bought a dividing head. It is a unit that comes with change gears so it can cut helical gears as well as straight cut gears. Yes I am in way over my head, but hey why not.
The problem I have is the change gears that should fit onto the end of the cross slide have a larger ID than the size of my shaft - see pic.
So as a way of thinking about the problem, I machined up a spacer/bush so the gear/s sit neatly on the shaft BUT it is a driven gear so it needs a way of transferring the drive (usually a keyway) - any really smart ideas????
Mal
Yesterday I bought a dividing head. It is a unit that comes with change gears so it can cut helical gears as well as straight cut gears. Yes I am in way over my head, but hey why not.
The problem I have is the change gears that should fit onto the end of the cross slide have a larger ID than the size of my shaft - see pic.
So as a way of thinking about the problem, I machined up a spacer/bush so the gear/s sit neatly on the shaft BUT it is a driven gear so it needs a way of transferring the drive (usually a keyway) - any really smart ideas????
Mal