Shee-Male Posted August 15, 2006 Report Posted August 15, 2006 Good on ya Red!, this is why I miss working at the machine shop, I also made shitloads of modded and custom parts for myself and friends. Quote
FireHead Posted August 15, 2006 Report Posted August 15, 2006 (edited) How are you going to add the little Notch to keep them from spinning around in the head? Endmill? :baseball_bat: It looks like I found a picture of me making some straight cut gears. This was the first set that I made when I was working at my my previous employer, hence the turd of a HAAS machine. Edited August 15, 2006 by FireHead Quote
BigRed350x Posted August 15, 2006 Author Report Posted August 15, 2006 I am running my own straight cut gears right now. However they are not a custom ratio. At the time I was making them, I did not feel that I knew enough about the Banshee drivetrain to be fooling around with that. I'll see if I can find some pictures of me making them when I get home from work, granted I made them on a CNC mill not a manual. All you need is a gear hob and a rotary table to do them on a manual machine. The grinding, lapping, and heat treatment were stumbling blocks for me. I think I would like to of a few more sets of gears this differnt types of heat treatment if I get the bug to do it again. Can you guys do gear grinding at you shop? If so, you may be my new best friend? :baseball_innocent: We can do pretty much anything anyone needs. We have done gears for things from starter gears for a honda all the way up to main drive chain gears for drilling rigs (about 4ft dia) he he The smallest gear we have done is on display in our shop and it is 1/8" thick and around a half-inch across. Little tiny bastard. How are you going to add the little Notch to keep them from spinning around in the head? The little notch is done on a mill. Takes like maybe 30sec. Quote
FireHead Posted August 15, 2006 Report Posted August 15, 2006 My own shift drum from scratch is my next project. I figue that I can pull some weight out of the tranny and get my shift pattern in there. :baseball_original: Quote
BigRed350x Posted August 15, 2006 Author Report Posted August 15, 2006 My own shift drum from scratch is my next project. I figue that I can pull some weight out of the tranny and get my shift pattern in there. :baseball_original: I don't know that I would try a shift drum, but if you do that lets see some pics and a report on function! Quote
BigRed350x Posted August 16, 2006 Author Report Posted August 16, 2006 Oh yeah... forgot to post what compression was bumped up to after I put these domes in. I'm at 185-187lbs in each cylinder. :beer: Quote
FireHead Posted August 16, 2006 Report Posted August 16, 2006 I don't know that I would try a shift drum, but if you do that lets see some pics and a report on function! It's going to take a few more weeks of boredom waiting for dune season to some around for me to get motivated to do a drum. I am a bit nervous as when I do stuff like this, i tend to break things. :baseball_original: Quote
BigRed350x Posted August 16, 2006 Author Report Posted August 16, 2006 It's going to take a few more weeks of boredom waiting for dune season to some around for me to get motivated to do a drum. I am a bit nervous as when I do stuff like this, i tend to break things. :baseball_original: Yeah I am thinking about shift forks and the side-cogs on the gears and what might happen to them if you are a half-mm off somewhere or get a cut in the wrong place or something. That would be bad. Quote
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