Thanks a lot for the references.
The Maytag search gave me a lot of leads to follow up, and I am busy downloading the manual and a lot of other info.
I have a lot of reading to do!
Regards,
Teo
You might have considered it, but why not use a hardened steel pinion against a PA66 (Molly filled) nylon gear? The self lubricating properties of the nylon, and running it against a hardened gear should give very good wear results.
Plastic gears are used extensively in the food industry...
Spurs,
It is scary that KISSOFT was so far out.... one would expect that what you pay for it should in some way relate to its accuracy! (In defence to the package it is accurate in the design of steel gears)
Besides KISSOFT.... (obviously), how do you rate your plasic gears. Especially...
June and Insideman, the best best information that I could find on the Web for the design of plastic gearing is a company called ABA-PGT at www.ABAPGT.com. With all the searches I have done, they seem to be the best... The new AGMA standards on plastic gearing has incorporated a lot of the...
Your question on the mesh frequencies are very interesting. I calculate the same frequencies as hullmodaltest. Do your calculations correlate with this?
Your gearbox seem to be planet factoring, where the ringear 75t, and the sungear 18t are divisible with the number of planets 3. In theory...
Here is an easy way of doing it:
Find a package that can wrap a bitmap image around a cylinder, most of them can do this at least. Then make your own bitmap image (which is square) but with the text written diagonally across it.
If you wrap this around the cylinder it will be helical. The...
Theory predicts that the loosening torque must always be less than the tightening torque.
But what about marking the bolt head angle, then losening it and retightening it to the same position it were before you loosened it. (That is if the bolts were not plastically stretched during the first...
