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Gear Cutting & Measurement

15 May 2018

About the event

The Seminar will cover basic involute gear theory; terms and definitions for spur and helical gears. This will include introduction to the involute form and its construction/tables and calculations; practical work on the measurement of gears including calculations regarding chordal tooth settings for gear tooth Vernier; constant chord settings to gear tooth Vernier; base tangent micrometer settings; distance over rollers measurement and basic principles of gear hobbing and shaping. The seminar will cover a selection of index and feed change gears and the practical work will include setting up and producing spur & helical gears by hobbing and shaping using a Maxicut 2A shaping machine and Sykes H150 hobbing machine.

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The British Gear Association (BGA)

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The British Gear Association (BGA)

The British Gear Association (BGA)

The British Gear Association (BGA) is a trade association that promotes the technical and commercial interests of manufacturers, distributors, academics and others involved in the Power Transmissions industry in the United Kingdom. The Association speaks with authority on behalf of the industry both nationally and internationally and its ability to help companies and individuals involved in the industry is widely recognised by government, the media and industry. The Association is well-represented on British and International Standard committees and provides the Chairman of the British Standards Institution's MCE/5 Committee on Gearing and the Chairman to ISO TC60 sub committee SC1.