involute

Hi there, I need some help from experienced people in gear cutting. I will try to rebuild my standard modern gears, they are pretty distorted, I know that I will not be able to give a good polishing to surface teeth but it just can't be worst. I bought a cheap set of involute cutters DP16...

I'm machining some shafts for a gearbox that I'm getting splined by a shop (I dont have the tools or the know-how), and was wondering how much material to leave them for splining. For an external spline should I turn them down to the final major diameter of the splines or do I need to leave some...

So here's another one of my long posts to draw on some of the experience others may have. I want to make some gear cutters and ultimately, some gears. The “button” method of profiling a gear cutter seems the most practical. Albeit only an approximation of the addendum profile. I have found some...