07-23-2012, 04:59 PM
sorry for not being active here in this thread, but I have been doing some other things like the mag base revival which turned out pretty good if I do say so. And today I took the day off to run up to Tulsa and see one of my brothers and do some shopping at the tool supplier.
I do plan on getting back to the gear cutting as I want a whole set of gears for my lathe, by set I mean the gears that should of been with it when I got the lathe. So this thread will be active for some time yet.
Now thats out of the way, I have another question. If I was to use brass/bronze to cut gears out of what would be a good alloy. I'm leaning towards using NiBrAl 95800 I believe is the alloy number, reason for using it is I can get it at a dirt cheap price and I have worked with it casting some boat prop blades (another story for a different time)
anyone have any suggestions, warnings like don't do it that way or yea that will work, or your just plum crazy for casting gear blanks
DA
I do plan on getting back to the gear cutting as I want a whole set of gears for my lathe, by set I mean the gears that should of been with it when I got the lathe. So this thread will be active for some time yet.
Now thats out of the way, I have another question. If I was to use brass/bronze to cut gears out of what would be a good alloy. I'm leaning towards using NiBrAl 95800 I believe is the alloy number, reason for using it is I can get it at a dirt cheap price and I have worked with it casting some boat prop blades (another story for a different time)
anyone have any suggestions, warnings like don't do it that way or yea that will work, or your just plum crazy for casting gear blanks
DA
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