building a planetary gear system and would like to make the gears as durable as possible,
iv done this before with identical material for gears and left the internal gear soft with no problems as there's so much surface area there where the planets connect,
but I heated and quenched the smaller planets and sun gear and had ok results, was just wondering if I should leave this one up to the professionals as this is a smaller more refined unit and need to have it right, is it something best suited for an oven and long period of heating? if so and there's no chance of warpage I would also have them do the larger internal/ring gear... know a place I can take them too if it takes an oven, will they just heat and quench or is it prolonged heating?
any sound advice is appreciated...
iv done this before with identical material for gears and left the internal gear soft with no problems as there's so much surface area there where the planets connect,
but I heated and quenched the smaller planets and sun gear and had ok results, was just wondering if I should leave this one up to the professionals as this is a smaller more refined unit and need to have it right, is it something best suited for an oven and long period of heating? if so and there's no chance of warpage I would also have them do the larger internal/ring gear... know a place I can take them too if it takes an oven, will they just heat and quench or is it prolonged heating?
any sound advice is appreciated...
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