Types of Gears: Spur, Helical, Bevel, Worm and More
My name is Clive, and I’ve spent the better part of my life around machines. I can tell you that for every powerful engine or precise robot, there is a hidden world of spinning teeth making it all happen. That world is the world of gears. To most people, a gear is just a gear—a […]
Why Standard Gears Fail: A Guide to the Industries That Depend on Custom Gearing
For over 25 years, I’ve been a partner at RM, a factory that solves mechanical problems. Day in and day out, clients bring us their ambitions, their challenges, and, quite often, their expensive failures. And in a surprising number of those cases, the root of the problem is a single, deceptively simple component: the gear. […]
Stop Gear Failures: An Engineer’s Guide to Choosing the Right Material
Quick Answers: Choosing Your Gear Material The Challenge: The Solution: Material Quick Select: Clive’s Bottom Line: There is no sound on a factory floor more expensive than sudden silence. I heard it fifteen years ago. A deep, percussive CRACK that echoed off the concrete walls, followed instantly by the high-pitched scream of a 200-horsepower motor […]
