Sep 2, 2003 #1 HughG Mechanical Sep 2, 2003 5 Has anyone ever succefully tried to use UV coatings to harden plastics gears.
Sep 3, 2003 #2 diamondjim Mechanical Jul 30, 2000 992 It seems like it might be easier to spec a better plastic to achieve what you are looking for. Upvote 0 Downvote
Sep 3, 2003 #3 Spurs Mechanical Nov 7, 2002 297 What is the problem that you are trying to address? Are you getting excessive wear? Upvote 0 Downvote
Sep 5, 2003 Thread starter #4 HughG Mechanical Sep 2, 2003 5 The gear is wearing cauing debris which is then causing stepper motor speed resonaces. I know that I can select many palstics, but just wondered if anyone had experince with UV hardcoating for gears Upvote 0 Downvote
The gear is wearing cauing debris which is then causing stepper motor speed resonaces. I know that I can select many palstics, but just wondered if anyone had experince with UV hardcoating for gears
