Gear hobbing in the lathe

I have seen this on another website **LINK** and thought it needed a wider audience. I was thinking I may build a hobbing machine, possibly the one being serialised in MEW, but this may be an easier option. Only thing is need to remove the rack to disable the traverse, I am sure there would be other options such as adding a separate take off from the lead-screw, I guess the feed is also manual.

​What do others think?

Baldric.

Damned if i can find the hobbynut channel or user ?

If you do a search you get another thread on this forum with a link from JS - and that never worked either

Yes sorry lads, quick look and I can't find it. I'll look later tonight but if like me, he lost his primary Google account it wipes all your Youtube video's out unless you re-upload them.

If some one wants to hob gears at least the lathe mod looks interesting.

I've more or less concluded that conventional cutters are a simpler option. A few cutters as needed doesn't have to break the bank. In fact sets in some small sizes need not be that expensive.

If for instance I want to cut mod or dp worms on my lathe I will have to cut some gears. 2 of them. I just need 1 cutter for these and for the use the cutter will get RDG stuff will be fine. In fact a silver steel one would do.

There are several options on things like clocks but I suppose these could be hobbed as well.

John

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But try buying a cutter for a special gear, that's where hobbing comes into account.

Three gears, all with different number of teeth but all cut on the same blank.

Only one of those could be cut with a gear cutter.

That's bad news - all sorts of good stuff could disappear if someone dies or has a computer wobbly. Bit like losing stuff off a forum or when picture hosting sites time out.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Hobbynut

I doesn't help that the link contains 'Hobbynut', but the name on screen is: OldManShorty

Scratch that.. No ME-elated videos....sorry ....

P.

Edited By Paul Davies on 29/07/2016 13:31:51