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Name for this part/mechanism?
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Name for this part/mechanism?

Name for this part/mechanism?

(OP)
I am referring to the gear-like circular faces that interlock when forced together and allow rotation when unlocked on these arms. I want to design one, but I can't seem to find out what its called.



Any advice as to how to make these out of metal in a basic machine shop is also welcome.

Thanks!

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

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Hirth coupling?

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

We make Hirth couplings all the time in our prototype shop. A rotary indexer and the desired angle of vee cutter is all that's required. (and a milling machine, of course)

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

(OP)
Thank you, you guys are awesome.

In the future, are there any tips or resources for how I might go about figuring that out without asking the forum?

Cheers.

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

I assumed I didn't know what it was and simply used google for "toothed rotational joint" and was able to find reference to a hirth joint in the first page that came up. But didn't find it so easily with Bing.. take that microsoft.. Google > Bing now matter what your commercials say :)

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

They can put bing where the sun don't shine.

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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

That's where it came from.


Thanks for identifying the Hirth joint - my little bit of learning for today. smile

RE: Name for this part/mechanism?

depending on the accuracy and increment a simpler jaw or dog coupling might suffice

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