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Rebuilding a 10" Standard Modern Utilathe

The eagle has landed, Brent, it's a thing of beauty.
A couple min. with 1000 grit paper and they're sliding together perfectly.
I doubt a professional machinist could have produced anything better.
Have to see if I can find time tomorrow to get the transmission back together.
I'm in the middle of renovating the kitchen, which I have been promising to do for over a decade, can't let her catch me having fun.
 

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skippyelwell said:
The eagle has landed, Brent, it's a thing of beauty.
A couple min. with 1000 grit paper and they're sliding together perfectly.
I doubt a professional machinist could have produced anything better.
Have to see if I can find time tomorrow to get the transmission back together.
I'm in the middle of renovating the kitchen, which I have been promising to do for over a decade, can't let her catch me having fun.
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"whipped" ;)
 
Brent H said:
@skippyelwell - WOO HOO!! Glad it made it and is getting the shaft!

I purchased a BS-0 dividing head and I am thinking that with a few folks help - @DavidR8 and @Susquatch etc etc I could power rotate it with a stepper motor to make gears using a Hobb. I have one for 12 DP (that is the same as the bull gear in the Utilathe). Would be interesting to make a couple new bull gears.
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Brent check out the build by Andy. The plans and code are free. I also laughed at his lock picking lawyer joke.
 
@djberta - thanks, I had watched his build and figured if I can use a pre-built dividing head and then just worry about the other “small builds” it could greatly speed up the process :) I didn’t know he also provided the plans etc - very cool.
 
I reassembled everything today, nice to have all 6 speeds again, the 2 speeds using the new gears are pretty loud as Brent's gears are 16DP, 20PA as they should be, and the high school made gears they mesh with are 16DP, 14.5PA
It's fine for now, wearing ear muffs is no hardship and at some point in the future when I have acquired the right tooling and expertise, I'll have a go at remaking the high school gears myself.
 
@skippyelwell - if the high-school gears are 14.5 PA you should be able to just mount them on the arbour and run a 16 DP 20° PA cutter through to clean them up. In hindsight I should have ground you a cutter with the gear profile and in theory you could run that on an arbour …. Hmmm - you might be able to do the same thing using the 20° gear tooth profile as a template
 
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