Posted: December 20, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025 Explore a new and innovative method of manufacturing large gears with a milling machine.

[Maciej Nowak] demonstrates just how to produce your own gears with a homemade cutting tool. The cutting tool for the job is an M16 machine tap, chosen for the smaller flutes compared to a hand tap.

In recent years, gear milling has become more interesting to some machine tool builders who see it as an efficient use of a five-axis machining center’s existing capability, bringing opportunities for ...

The second aspect of the milling machine that we discovered in May 2005 — 100 to 120 years from the time the universal gear-milling process was introduced — involves changing the places of the cutting ...