Involute tooth depth

As all my gear cutting has been in clockmaking, I have been using cycloidal form gear teeth. I have one involute gear to make it is Mod 1 & 63 teeth. I would be grateful to know the full depth I ought to cut it.

Many Thanks, David

If you use an Involute gear cutter, it is likely to be marked with the df number, which is the depth of cut.

If you intend to cut any more gears, Ivan Law's book on "Gears and Gear Cutting", No.17 in the Workshop Practice Series will be a good investment and a very useful guide and reference.

Howard

More usually referred to as d + f .

If you search for 'd + f gear' or 'whole depth of gear tooth', there is a lot of material available.

For metric gears, this one is good: https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/abcs_of_gears-b/basic_gear_terminology_calculation.html

For imperial gears (not your current challenge), this one is good: https://www.bostongear.com/-/media/Files/Literature/Brand/boston-gear/catalogs/p-1930-bg-sections/p-1930-bg_engineering-info-spur-gears.ashx

David,

To answer your question directly, I used my go to gear generator software. It gave the following result for the quoted gear:

In case it's not too easy to see from the above screenshot, the depth of cut works out as 65.0 - 60.5mm = 4.5mm. Or if you prefer, 0.177in.

John

Many thanks everyone. It's a change gear for my metric lathe so I can cut imperial threads.

David

John, it's actually half of that.

Regards

Pete

Thanks Pete, I had already 'read between the lines'

David

Well spotted, Pete. Should have been obvious, really. I thouht it was a bit deep at the time, but failed to apply what little common sense I have left!

John

Good program. I would have expected the pressure angle to be given as 20 degrees, not 14.5.

You can specify but for the purpose it wouldn't matter, the whole depth is the same for both.

I would have expected module gears to be 20 degrees pressure angle.

You are obviously thinking of a 63T gear.

They are available for mini lathes.(Arc Euro sell aluminium ones ) Using a 63T gear in the train will not be an absolutely precise (You need a 127T for that, but a 1 Mod gear will be big - 129 mm diameter! )

For most purposes, the errors with a 63T gear will be tolerable.

Howard