Cutting spur gears using 6mm end mill

[DesertRunner]

I am nearing the completio n of cutting 30 of 105mm dia by 50 mm wide nylon gears.  I didn't go with the knucklewe nt with the spur gears.

[BobL]

Hi;

 These look great, how long do you have each gear's cut time refined to? Looking very impressiv e, great work.


Cheers
Bob

[DesertRunner]

Bob got it down to 36mins, what I did was exported the Gcode at 1500mm per min then I edited the code to do the first up and back cut for each tooth at 300mm pm.  I was also playing with fast plunge.
30 of them is a lot of gears, I will try to get a short Video of part of the last one.
Tony

[BobL]

Tony;

 Not bad at 36 minutes. Great job and thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Bob

[Dan]

Good work, Tony.

36 minutes.. . actually sounds like a lot of time for these .

Dan