Gear Cutting

News • May 7, 2020

Forest City Gear Co. donates $3,100 to Rockford Rescue Mission

ROSCOE, IL (May 5, 2020) - Forest City Gear Co. is proud to announce that its employees have raised $1,300 to support Rockford Rescue Mission's efforts to respond to the increased need brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Forest City Gear committed to match employee donations dollar for dollar, raising the total for this most recent fundraiser to $2,600. That tally, combined with a previous donation of $500 from the company, brings the total amount of Forest City Gear's donations to Rockford Rescue Mission to $3,100 to date.

Videos • January 22, 2020

Tungaloy Enhances T9200 Steel Turning Inserts with New Grades and Geometries

Tungaloy has expanded its T9200 CVD grade insert series to include T9205 and T9235 grades as well as the -TSF and -TM style chipbreakers.

Articles • June 19, 2019 • Kip Hanson

Technology tames gear trouble for machine shops

Make mill/turn lathes and multitask machines into gear-cutting workhorses.

News • June 18, 2019

NUM AG helps machine tool company develop CNC grinding machines for manufacturing specialized gears

NUM AG is helping Taiwanese machine tool company Chien Wei Precise Technology Co. Ltd. develop CNC grinding machines for manufacturing specialized gears used in robotics applications. Based on NUM's Flexium+ 68 CNC platform, Chien Wei's machines are designed to speed the production of both involute and cycloidal profile precision gears.

Articles • September 18, 2018

Flexible method for machining aids gear wheel prototypes

Get with the Program: InvoMilling, a flexible method for machining external gears and splines, cuts lead times.

Articles • August 24, 2018 • Alan Richter

Company gears up for growth

Aero Gear's Doug Rose discusses machining gears and the company's facility expansion

News • July 9, 2018 • Alan Richter

Cutting the coolant when making gears

When it comes to hobbing auto gears, dry machining dominates. "There are no new automotive applications that are being done wet," said Tom Ware, product manager for gear tools at Star SU Co. LLC, Hoffman Estates, Ill. "There are a few tier suppliers that have not updated to new equipment and are still running some wet applications, but all the major manufacturers have gone dry."

Articles • March 13, 2018 • Holly B. Martin

Gear pioneer Kate Gleason was way ahead of her time

With respect to the norms of the 19th century, Kate Gleason was way ahead of her time. In honor of Women's History Month, CTE remembers groundbreaker Catherine "Kate" Anselm Gleason (1865-1933). During the restrictive culture of her time, she helped shape the global cutting tools industry as a sales engineer for her family's gear cutting machinery business.

Articles • August 1, 2014 • Frank Berardi

Higher gear

Gear makers embrace indexable-insert tools.

Videos • February 22, 2014

Knight Carbide Video Case Study: MK Dog Cutter

Knight Carbide presents a brief case study via this video that details the use of its MK Dog Cutter to machine slots into a transmission dog gear made of 9310 Stainles Steel.

Articles • December 1, 2013 • Alan Richter

A tale of two shops

Separate yet combined is an apt description of Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument. Located on New York's Long Island, in New Hyde Park, both sides of the company were founded, and are still managed, by engineers.

Articles • August 1, 2013 • Susan Woods

Old iron, new life

Retrofitting old machine tools with new CNCs can make more sense than buying new -- particularly for larger machines.