Hey Keith - I got started cutting gears 40 years ago at Cat Tractor E. Peoria IL. Watching you work through this process brought back all kinds of memories. Thank you. Larry
Hi Keith. As an old and retired engineer I love watching this stuff. Takes me back to the first year of my career as technical apprentice in the company's apprentice workshop. That was 51 years ago. Start of a very satisfying career. A word of advise to all, if I may. One of the trickiest tasks of any machine operator is approaching the job with the machine tool. Not so bad if you have plenty of meat to remove from a blank but if you are dealing with a finished component I always used a small piece of newspaper. You soak it in wet solly, or just plain spit, and stick it down flat on the job. The tool will whizz that paper off before it makes contact with the job,. Gets you within 2 thou of the surface.Thanks again Keith.
I do like this format of showing one section of a job at a time rather than the whole job. It then builds into a "how to" library of videos. There is still a place for the whole job video as well as that can include other nuances not in the individual opperations, and this stops the need to explain every time you cut a gear what you are doing.Nice one!
Keith, you're a true inspiration to all of us amateurs. I always learn lots from you. I've recently acquired a Harig 612 Surface Grinder and this is my first surface grinder (at age 73!). When you discuss surface grinding projects would you please mention at least the grain size and the grade of the wheel you're using on each project? Abrasive type, density and bond type is also of interest for us who are just getting started. Thanks for your videos. Mike, Charlottesville, VA
thank you from England, I have a Tom Senior and an ancient Myford and Drummond but haven't done anything for years. This is a much needed refresher course for me
Having been in the same position I know how happy the owner will be to get a new gear set You are a asset to the machinery enthusiast Community thank you for sharing your time knowledge and equipment with other
Awesome. My father in law was a Master Machinist, trained in WWII Navy. I always delighted in watching him work in his shop at home. His skills provided very well for his family. As an educator, I totally encourage students to explore the Skilled Trades. It's criminal at so many levels that our nation has lagged behind in this. God willing with encouragement of youth these skills will again flourish in Aa Erica. Thank you Sir, for sharing your love of craft and skill.
When I was in high school, I was discouraged from taking shop classes because "That kind of work will all be done by robots in a few years" according to my counselors. That was more than 40 years ago. Robots are still largely limited to major production work and skilled labor positions are difficult for employers to fill due to a lack of trained people. My skills have kept me employed and making a good living. Of course, I have also pursued a learning for life program. Watching these videos is a small part of it.
*I am happy with your work, too, Keith. And thank you for the effort you put forth and the striving it takes to be such a good teacher and editor of your filming.*
You always make the projects look so easy which is a sign of extensive experience. Love all the different camera angles during the cutting process and the thorough explanation of each step. The finished product is definitely a piece of art. Am looking forward to you surpassing the 100K benchmark. Thanks much for all your great videos.
I think the biggest draw to channels like these, is the authenticity of the content. We are assaulted daily by such loads of mis-information and dis-information, that we are naturally drawn to something we can trust.
Great Video Keith. When you did not mention changing the cutter, I was holding my breath hoping that you had actually made the change. Thanks for all you do Gary, 74-Year-Old Home Shop Machinist in North West Arkansas
Looks great, Keith. The first time I made a gear I felt like I'd really accomplished something. Of course most of that was just having patience and not screwing it up since it was a 32 tooth gear. I brought it in for show-and-tell at work and my computer dweeb friends thought I was some kind of metal god. Hilarious ...
kieth loved this one ! you are a fine teacher I have been praying for all you people down there that huricane Irma dosent make a mess for you. Mark from northern MN
Another great video. Hope the hurricanes are kind to you and Mike, as well as all the other residents of the S.E. Looking forward to seeing you guys at Arnfest, Rollie
Exact same setup I have in my home shop.. I have both the model h and model k dividing heads along with foot stock for each.. I have a 2h plain K&T but have not cut gears with it yet as I usually use my 2hl universal with low lead box for gear cutting..I have had success cutting helical gears with my setup... Mike in Louisiana
Keith, I haven't cut gears for years, but there might be a small job coming up for me soon. This has been a good refresher course for me. I have access to a milling machine in the workshop of a Railway society that I belong to, but it is a long way from home.
Thank you for sharing, I do not have the machines that you do, however, you have taking me back on time when I was at school, thank you and have a nice day.
Keith Rucker Non-Critical Tolerance(TM): +/- 0.000" :) Love the video as always. You are a true craftsman. Congrats on the up coming Silver Play Button.
Hello Keith, looking at your videos and the way you explain everything ,i feel i'm taking a college course... ... after watching your videos, you sir are a very brilliant machinist,,,,,,,thank you sir for sharing with us
Brought back memories for me too...Cut my teeth ( pun intended...) on a couple of Archdale Horizontal millers way back in the mid 80's, we had a couple of peg board autos as well...miss those days
Hi Keith, it looks like you might be in for a little storm in the next few days or so, wishing you and your family the best of luck and keep safe from Melbourne Australia.
Noticed a tiny bit of run out in your set up but it is almost impossible to get zero run out in that type of set up. I used to cut "memory plates" using pretty much the same set up on Cincinatti machines. We used a four inch by six inch serrated cutter on inch and a quarter arbors. Most were 20 pitch but some were different. Used pins for checking depth of cut also. Very good simple to understand video. I am about 70 miles north of you. We are waiting on Irma too..........
I liked how you marked the small gear with dots. I understand how you would index the gear to each position, please tell how you guided the marker to the same spot so well... when you were cutting each tooth the cutter went through each dot, so I know you placed them quite precisely. Looks like a good sanity check.
Thanks for the very informative video. Good explanations and camera angles as usual. I am an expert at Excel programming, so happy to volunteer to complete your spreadsheet. Looks to be interesting. Easy to program for dialog boxes, drop down selection lists, text file or Excel file generation, hide tabs or calculations etc. Let me know if you want my help.
Really enjoyed that Keith--machining videos are my favourite..cut a few gears myself but do not regard my self as any expert--I have a set of involute gear cutters but they are not stamped clearly and its a pain
Once you get the spread sheet sorted out, lock every cell down that doesn't require user input. For some of the stuff you are having to mess with, you might create a table that the user can simply pick what is needed.
5:05 RobRenz recommends using precision ground flat stones to deburr a taper... and he showed how to do an outside taper... wonder how he would deburr the inside taper??
Looks good! Still waiting for you to get all the stuff to do helical gears as well. :-) I would love to have it myself but doubt I will ever find what it takes to do it on my machines.
Thanks Keith , I know you have shown similar videos in the past on the same but I always pick up something new. Could you give us a run through on the gear tooth measuring vernier please.
Oh! Backlash in the dividing head! You should do a few videos on overhauling the dividing head. At 26:56, is there any concern with synchronizing the teeth of the pinion you cut earlier with the teeth of the gear you're about to cut? Also, it seems like with your gear measurement technique with the two rods, it seems to assume an even number of teeth, so you always measure two opposing valleys. Is that correct? I imagine you could get your depth of cut dialed in on two opposing valleys, then let 'er rip on the remaining valleys. Perhaps for larger gears with higher tooth counts.
Excellent video Keith as always been watch u for a number of years now & yer still giving me lots of entertainment. One of the first video was I think a backhoe pin repair my question is did that repair last very long? Keep the video coming
Hi Keith, Love cutting gears, but prefer module gears (metric) the maths is so much simpler than for DP. Metric also have 8 cutters per set, but their numbering is reversed to DP - the 12 13 gear is no 1 and 135 to rack no 8. You could have used other hole rows on your dividing head to, basically any row divisible by 3. Nice little project. What is the tonnage of your arbour press? Cheers Dennis
Hey Keith - I got started cutting gears 40 years ago at Cat Tractor E. Peoria IL. Watching you work through this process brought back all kinds of memories. Thank you.
Larry
Hi Keith. As an old and retired engineer I love watching this stuff. Takes me back to the first year of my career as technical apprentice in the company's apprentice workshop. That was 51 years ago. Start of a very satisfying career. A word of advise to all, if I may. One of the trickiest tasks of any machine operator is approaching the job with the machine tool. Not so bad if you have plenty of meat to remove from a blank but if you are dealing with a finished component I always used a small piece of newspaper. You soak it in wet solly, or just plain spit, and stick it down flat on the job. The tool will whizz that paper off before it makes contact with the job,. Gets you within 2 thou of the surface.Thanks again Keith.
Great idea, to bad you couldn't just use some spit mixed with Dye?
I do like this format of showing one section of a job at a time rather than the whole job. It then builds into a "how to" library of videos. There is still a place for the whole job video as well as that can include other nuances not in the individual opperations, and this stops the need to explain every time you cut a gear what you are doing.Nice one!
Keith, you're a true inspiration to all of us amateurs. I always learn lots from you. I've recently acquired a Harig 612 Surface Grinder and this is my first surface grinder (at age 73!). When you discuss surface grinding projects would you please mention at least the grain size and the grade of the wheel you're using on each project? Abrasive type, density and bond type is also of interest for us who are just getting started. Thanks for your videos. Mike, Charlottesville, VA
thank you from England, I have a Tom Senior and an ancient Myford and Drummond but haven't done anything for years. This is a much needed refresher course for me
Having been in the same position I know how happy the owner will be to get a new gear set
You are a asset to the machinery enthusiast
Community thank you for sharing your time knowledge and equipment with other
Awesome. My father in law was a Master Machinist, trained in WWII Navy. I always delighted in watching him work in his shop at home. His skills provided very well for his family. As an educator, I totally encourage students to explore the Skilled Trades. It's criminal at so many levels that our nation has lagged behind in this. God willing with encouragement of youth these skills will again flourish in Aa Erica. Thank you Sir, for sharing your love of craft and skill.
When I was in high school, I was discouraged from taking shop classes because "That kind of work will all be done by robots in a few years" according to my counselors. That was more than 40 years ago. Robots are still largely limited to major production work and skilled labor positions are difficult for employers to fill due to a lack of trained people. My skills have kept me employed and making a good living. Of course, I have also pursued a learning for life program. Watching these videos is a small part of it.
*I am happy with your work, too, Keith. And thank you for the effort you put forth and the striving it takes to be such a good teacher and editor of your filming.*
You always make the projects look so easy which is a sign of extensive experience. Love all the different camera angles during the cutting process and the thorough explanation of each step. The finished product is definitely a piece of art. Am looking forward to you surpassing the 100K benchmark. Thanks much for all your great videos.
I think the biggest draw to channels like these, is the authenticity of the content. We are assaulted daily by such loads of mis-information and dis-information, that we are naturally drawn to something we can trust.
I certainly have enjoyed this video as I have never tried and never had need for a horizontal mill. Thanks for the great learning lesson.
Great Video Keith. When you did not mention changing the cutter, I was holding my breath hoping that you had actually made the change. Thanks for all you do
Gary, 74-Year-Old Home Shop Machinist in North West Arkansas
Another job that was neatly done -- and that saves an old machine from the scrap heap.
Looks great, Keith. The first time I made a gear I felt like I'd really accomplished something. Of course most of that was just having patience and not screwing it up since it was a 32 tooth gear. I brought it in for show-and-tell at work and my computer dweeb friends thought I was some kind of metal god. Hilarious ...
kieth loved this one ! you are a fine teacher I have been praying for all you people down there that huricane Irma dosent make a mess for you. Mark from northern MN
Keith you are good teacher I enjoy your presentation.
I like seeing the horizontal milling machine in action. Another great video Keith. My daughter and I watch them all the time.
I always enjoy gear cutting. I agree that you get that personal satisfaction after creating a nice part like that.
What a good series on shafting & gear cutting Keith. Very enjoyable. Stay safe and dry from Irma. Cheers.
Another great video. Hope the hurricanes are kind to you and Mike, as well as all the other residents of the S.E.
Looking forward to seeing you guys at Arnfest,
Rollie
Great job Keith, I want to comment that you did a fantastic job placing the camera, with all the equipment on the table. Thanks much.
Great video Keith. I always like to watch a bit of horizontal milling. Best wishes.
keith - You enjoy cutting the gears and I enjoy watching mill work. Milling machines are very interesting. learned a lot also.
Another great one Keith thanks for all your hard work, stay safe and dry, have a good day and a better tomorrow
Exact same setup I have in my home shop.. I have both the model h and model k dividing heads along with foot stock for each.. I have a 2h plain K&T but have not cut gears with it yet as I usually use my 2hl universal with low lead box for gear cutting..I have had success cutting helical gears with my setup... Mike in Louisiana
Never to old to learn, and you are a great teacher, many thanks.
Great job Keith. As a novice, I have found this a most interesting series of videos, thank you
Good job Keith. I live in Young Harris, GA and I watch you and Adam or Abomb all the time. Really enjoyed it.
Wow Keith am I impressed!! In 35 minutes you cut two gears - takes me that long to get my butt out to the shop. THANK you for the great videos Rod
Keith, I haven't cut gears for years, but there might be a small job coming up for me soon. This has been a good refresher course for me. I have access to a milling machine in the workshop of a Railway society that I belong to, but it is a long way from home.
Thank you for sharing, I do not have the machines that you do, however, you have taking me back on time when I was at school, thank you and have a nice day.
I'm new to your show and thanks for talking and not putting just words up
Keith Rucker Non-Critical Tolerance(TM): +/- 0.000" :)
Love the video as always. You are a true craftsman. Congrats on the up coming Silver Play Button.
One of your best videos, great camera angles, great audio, but most importantly - great instruction. Thanks! And congrats on 100k!
Excellent post Keith.
Thank you sir, my father was a machinist so I can appreciate your skills and knowledge.
Central California watching
Excellent vid as always. I hope the impact of the impending hurricane is minimal on you and your family (and the new shop!).
Hello Keith,
looking at your videos and the way you explain everything ,i feel i'm taking a college course... ... after watching your videos, you sir are a very brilliant machinist,,,,,,,thank you sir for sharing with us
Brought back memories for me too...Cut my teeth ( pun intended...) on a couple of Archdale Horizontal millers way back in the mid 80's, we had a couple of peg board autos as well...miss those days
Hi Keith, it looks like you might be in for a little storm in the next few days or so, wishing you and your family the best of luck and keep safe from Melbourne Australia.
Thanks Keith. Your videos are of professional quality and I appreciate the effort that goes into making them.
Nice job haven't done that type of job in a while..contributed to more knowledge on gear teeth cutting
awesome machinery work injoy all of the work into making that gear set, thank you for sharing it with me and all youtuber"s
I always enjoy watching your videos Keith.
Thinking of you and hope Irma doesn't hit you too bad, next week. It ought to fill your pond up!
Noticed a tiny bit of run out in your set up but it is almost impossible to get zero run out in that type of set up. I used to cut "memory plates" using pretty much the same set up on Cincinatti machines. We used a four inch by six inch serrated cutter on inch and a quarter arbors. Most were 20 pitch but some were different. Used pins for checking depth of cut also. Very good simple to understand video. I am about 70 miles north of you. We are waiting on Irma too..........
Good one, Keith, I love seeing the horizontal mill in action, it's my favourite machine.
Cool! I always wanted to see gears being made on a horizontal mill. Thanks for sharing Mr.Keith!
Hi Keith. I really enjoy your machining videos. Thanks.
I liked how you marked the small gear with dots. I understand how you would index the gear to each position, please tell how you guided the marker to the same spot so well... when you were cutting each tooth the cutter went through each dot, so I know you placed them quite precisely. Looks like a good sanity check.
Looking forward to the completed spread sheet!
Brought back some memories from my time with the MOD and the Royal Ordnance Factory here in the UK...🤔🤔
Very nice job. Enjoyed watching. Love the spreadsheet.
AWESOME JOB KEITH.. Thumbs up !
Thanks for the very informative video. Good explanations and camera angles as usual.
I am an expert at Excel programming, so happy to volunteer to complete your spreadsheet. Looks to be interesting. Easy to program for dialog boxes, drop down selection lists, text file or Excel file generation, hide tabs or calculations etc. Let me know if you want my help.
You would probably be better off to use Vlookup or Hlookup tables as that's what the machinery handbook contains for the most part.
we always see work being done on your show. love the channel. your # 1 with me
Keith, you are a talented man. Love watching your videos.
Beautiful work, Keith!
great work mr. rucker
A useful subject, well presented. Thanks Keith
All I can say is you have some cool machines. Wished I had the room!!!!!!!
Keith, nice job, regards Frank
Always informative. Thanks Keith.
Also, CONGRATULATIONS on the imminent arrival to the 100K club!
Thank you Keith! What a great project.
Well done as usual. Thanks, Keith
@Keith - Amazing work, the accuracy is impressive. What a beautifully finished product.
Fantastic work as always Keith! Your videos always answer those little questions and thoughts I have in mind regarding "how is that made".
Really enjoyed that Keith--machining videos are my favourite..cut a few gears myself but do not regard my self as any expert--I have a set of involute gear cutters but they are not stamped clearly and its a pain
Once you get the spread sheet sorted out, lock every cell down that doesn't require user input. For some of the stuff you are having to mess with, you might create a table that the user can simply pick what is needed.
5:05 RobRenz recommends using precision ground flat stones to deburr a taper... and he showed how to do an outside taper... wonder how he would deburr the inside taper??
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super nice gears, good job!!
Looks good! Still waiting for you to get all the stuff to do helical gears as well. :-) I would love to have it myself but doubt I will ever find what it takes to do it on my machines.
You'd just need REALLY BIG GEARS.
Great job Keith. Matt C.
I've been waiting for this vid. Great job, Keith! Its amazing how much time it takes to make such a small part.
Thanks Keith , I know you have shown similar videos in the past on the same but I always pick up something new. Could you give us a run through on the gear tooth measuring vernier please.
pretty cool gear making
Great video as usual. Thank you for mentioning that you changed out the cutter. I was getting a little concerned.
Great camera angle at 18:00
Another great video Keith, would it be worth magnetizing your measuring pins as a "third hand"?
Nice work there
Great work thanks for sharing your many skills Keith
Be sure to let us know when you make hypoid (like used in an old style differential) or spiral bevel gears (as used on CNC machines)!!!
Nice Video. Hope Irma doesn't hit you too hard. The best of luck!
Oh! Backlash in the dividing head! You should do a few videos on overhauling the dividing head.
At 26:56, is there any concern with synchronizing the teeth of the pinion you cut earlier with the teeth of the gear you're about to cut?
Also, it seems like with your gear measurement technique with the two rods, it seems to assume an even number of teeth, so you always measure two opposing valleys. Is that correct?
I imagine you could get your depth of cut dialed in on two opposing valleys, then let 'er rip on the remaining valleys. Perhaps for larger gears with higher tooth counts.
Wish you well with Irma. We are 30 miles from Adam and should be fine. God be with you.
Nice work! When I started watching you only needed 28 more subscribers!
I hope we get to see these gears in action on that guy's lathe!
keith nice work.
When we gonna see the vertical head for the Kearney & Trecker get repaired.....still waiting and looking forward to that.
Excellent video Keith as always been watch u for a number of years now & yer still giving me lots of entertainment. One of the first video was I think a backhoe pin repair my question is did that repair last very long? Keep the video coming
Hi Keith,
Love cutting gears, but prefer module gears (metric) the maths is so much simpler than for DP.
Metric also have 8 cutters per set, but their numbering is reversed to DP - the 12 13 gear is no 1 and 135 to rack no 8.
You could have used other hole rows on your dividing head to, basically any row divisible by 3.
Nice little project.
What is the tonnage of your arbour press?
Cheers Dennis
Nice !!!!
Great work. Love your channel !!
Hang a couple rubber bands off your part before mounting it in the dividing head to hold you pins for measuring. More helpful for larger diameters.
Very clear as always.
Did you have to time the big gear to the little gear? Maybe by starting with the keyway indicated straight up or somesuch? Great series!
Looks like you're 43 subscribers away from 100k. Go Keith!
Another great video!
I would have used Loctite green retaining compound, but that's just me. My stuff doesn't fit that well. lol
Would a tiny bit of grease on the bottom pin to hold it in place throw off your measurement? Thanks for the video.
THANK YOU...for sharing.
can you do a helical gera cutting video with the formula to calculate the no of gears used