22 Apr
2003
22 Apr
'03
8:46 a.m.
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Having worked out the pitch of the broken drive gears
(120), and
having looked on a couple of web sites _and_ contacted someone
at Boston Gear, it's looking grim.
According to the e-mail I got back, Boston Gear doesn't carry anything
finer than a pitch of 64. When I asked who did carry such gears, the
answer was: "I am not familiar with any company that makes miniature
gearing." :-(
Ethan, there is an outfit Sterling Instrument/Stock Drive Products
at 2101 Jericho Turnpike, Box 5416, New Hyde Park, NY 11042-5416,
phone 516-328-3300, fax 516-326-8827 who may be able to help out
in the 64 pitch game. The address and phone data is some years
old, but may well still be valid.
- don
My goal all along has been to find a company that has
a bag of these
on the shelf. I had no idea it was such an unusual item. I don't
relish the idea of fabrication, but maybe that's what we're facing.
Rather than machining each gear, I wonder how hard it would be to
make an extrusion die to pump out a long gear and cut it into 5/32"
slices?
-ethan
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