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Plastic Gear Life Calculations
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Ticona, manufacturer of Celcon, is one source:
Here is a site that has some information on the gdsign of plastic gears.
We had Kleiss Gears do a presentation here a while ago. They seem to be (and I've heard that they are) the rockstars of plastic gears.
They gave us a peek at some of their software, and it takes into account more than you could hope to find just perusing the web looking for calcs.
If your looking at production, it's worth checking them out.
Chris Loughnane - Product Design
They gave us a peek at some of their software, and it takes into account more than you could hope to find just perusing the web looking for calcs.
If your looking at production, it's worth checking them out.
Chris Loughnane - Product Design
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Thanks for the input. The Celcon had a formula and a table for a few flavors of their materials. (The formula has F in it but never defines F, I assumed it was f, which was defined but not used). The sabic website has a good calculator, but the allowable stress went up as the desired cycles went up, (the design fails at 1000 cycles but passes at 1 million) so I am a little skeptical.
I'll keep looking and post back if I find anything better.
I'll keep looking and post back if I find anything better.
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