For specific applications, such as motorsports, straight cut gears provide some advantages. However, for everyday passenger vehicles, they would offer a terrible experience, which is why most vehicles ...

There is no complex science behind what straight-cut gears are. It's exactly as it sounds, gears with teeth that run straight out from the center of the wheel, rather than slanting in a spiral. The ...

Makers, engineers and hobbyists who would like to automatically manufacture a variety of different size plastic gears you might be interested in a unique machine built using a little Arduino hardware, ...

Mazak’s Integrex e-1250V/8 AG incorporates the Auto Gear package, thus combining gear processing with full 5-axis machining, and heavy-duty turning operations, plus pallet-changing capabilities for ...

Lasercutters are fantastic tools: they’re highly useful for making flat things, or even flat things that you later bend! This makes them particularly well suited for making gears out of flat stock.