Made a rack gear...

[hoffman]

It's for my welder pedal project. Pretty slow on the shaper but fun. The little vise did great.



I finally got around to making a tailstock lock for the lathe. I fooled around with giving it some color...

[Your Old Dog]

I'm not familiar with shapers. How many passes do you have to make to get one tooth? From the looks of the chips it's about 5 or 6, is that right?

[hoffman]

The total depth was .135 and I took about .020, feed down, .020, feed down until at depth. I have a small shaper and don't push it hard at all. I think the whole thing took about 30 minutes which is about how long it took my HF band saw to cut the stock off

Do yourself a favor and don't start looking at shapers on the internet or you'll want one.

[Leigh]

Very nicd

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Leigh W3NLB

[torker]

hoffman...nice job you did there. Did you cut the whole thing with the same tool or did you have to sharpen it along the way? Just wondering...I was cutting gears last winter with hand sharpened cutters and hated it if I had to resharpen before the gear was done. Always had a devil of a time to get the cutter the same.
That shaper makes it look easy.
There's a huge old bugger going to be for sale here in awhile. I'm interested but man is it huge. I'm sure it weighs 6 or 7 thousand pounds.
Russ

[hoffman]

It was 1/4 aluminum so the tool cut it like butter. A little part on a little shaper

If I can ever get moved to my new place I'm going to find a 14-16 inch shaper preferably a hydraulic.

[J Tiers]

Ah, I was gonna say that if you did an 0.020 feed in steel, you were doing pretty well. I found just a couple thou at near max depth in steel was about as much as I wanted to do making a 14 pitch gear.

Aluminum, OK I'm with you on that.