Mike Rambour wrote:
>
> oh no, I am starting to have senior moments at my young age, honest I
> went to McMaster and searched but I didn't think of BEVEL gears, geez, I
> was looking for some super complex high tech gearing system that NASA
> would be proud of and could not find any such thing and all I had to
> think of was BEVEL gears.
You might also be thinking of hypoid gears, which are essentially the
same as bevel gears but don't share a common axis...
Picture here:
http://www.arrowgear.com/images/hypoid_gear.JPG
Hypoid gears are usually smoother, since there is continuous gear
contact. With straight-cut bevel gears, the movement is often a bit
gravelly as individual teeth mesh and unmesh noticeably.
--
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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