Gearing Terminology
Gearing Terminology
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Can some opinions as to the meaning of the term "topping" please.
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RE: Gearing Terminology
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RE: Gearing Terminology
No, I didn't know that off the top of my head. I found it here:
http://www.qtcgears.com/Q410/PDF/Q410P384.pdf
Actually, I had heard the word before, but I remembered it a little differently. I once got a shipment of Helicon gears with burrs on the o.d.. They were expensive, so I complained about it, and was told they had missed a secondary 'topping' operation and should be returned for processing. The resulting gears were burr- free, and had a nice small uniform chamfer at the o.d. extending around the entire periphery, including the root, tip and flanks of every tooth, as if they'd been deburred, but not by hand.
So, there are two slightly different definitions for you.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA