Well another instalment in the never ending story of my DIY power drawbar. Here we make a new helical gear to replace the one that I stripped most of the teeth off.
When it started reversing after 180 degrees, instead of going all the way back to Fusion, you could have re-zeroed your rotary axis at 180 degrees and ran the same job again to cut the other half of the teeth. Interesting video, thanks for posting.
Very nice...But, why is the Z axis moving up a little after the cut and then moving back down? Looks like one could eliminate that bit and save some time.
@@CazualHaze Funny you should say that as the same happens to me BUT a good friend has no problems - he has the same release of software etc etc. I just edit the G-code to give a better feed rate......
Yep I think it is an odd bit of software. My pulsing engine driver randomly stops working, I seem to be the only one! I need to reboot the pc to start it again.
Hi Peter, Yes its the paid version. The toolpath is wrapped around the stock. I have to say I find it tricky to set up but works well 'in the end' Cheers
@@CazualHaze I have a Syil X4 myself and some of your additions are things I have thought of. In the few years I have had it the owners of F360 have have removed useful features from the hobby version including 4th axis. I am not going to paid version and Freecad is not yet there. I may have to write my own gcode for simple 3+1 operations. BTW The link to your website in the about page is dead. Regards
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Loving that you are deciding to fix the problem with the gear durability instead of just buying a bunch of stuff.
Yep its true I am tighter than a Ferrari head gasket!
wow what a job. Requires a lot of thinking. For me the video was very interesting to watch
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cheers
helical gears are always tricky if everything is not spot on. I hope it works at the end 🙂
Thanks its not perfect by any stretch but I think its worth finishing to see what happens.
Cheers
Another great educational video haze! Keep up the good work!
Thanks Bob,
I enjoy making these so there is more on the way.
Cheers
When it started reversing after 180 degrees, instead of going all the way back to Fusion, you could have re-zeroed your rotary axis at 180 degrees and ran the same job again to cut the other half of the teeth. Interesting video, thanks for posting.
Thanks for the comment never crossed my mind to try that.
Cheers
Very nice...But, why is the Z axis moving up a little after the cut and then moving back down? Looks like
one could eliminate that bit and save some time.
Spot on there is a setting in fusion to keep Z axis down it would have saved time. I only found out about it after I had made this part.
Good effort. Did you consider using the gear wizard in Mach3?
Yes I did but I have found it to be very slow. I cant get it to feed any faster than 1mm/min probably not getting the settings right!
@@CazualHaze Funny you should say that as the same happens to me BUT a good friend has no problems - he has the same release of software etc etc. I just edit the G-code to give a better feed rate......
Yep I think it is an odd bit of software. My pulsing engine driver randomly stops working, I seem to be the only one!
I need to reboot the pc to start it again.
Interesting. Are you using paid version of F360 to generate the 4th axis code?
Hi Peter,
Yes its the paid version. The toolpath is wrapped around the stock. I have to say I find it tricky to set up but works well 'in the end'
Cheers
@@CazualHaze I have a Syil X4 myself and some of your additions are things I have thought of. In the few years I have had it the owners of F360 have have removed useful features from the hobby version including 4th axis. I am not going to paid version and Freecad is not yet there. I may have to write my own gcode for simple 3+1 operations. BTW The link to your website in the about page is dead. Regards