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  • Design of Plastic Gear and General Considerations of Plastic Gearing
    Plastic gears are continuing to displace metal gears in a widening arena of applications. Their unique characteristics are also being enhanced with new developments, both in materials and processing. In this regard, plastics contrast somewhat dramatically with metals, in that the latter materials
  • Using and Specifying Plastic Gears
    For mechanical engineers, plastic gears are a powerful means of cutting drive-cost,. weight, noise and wear. Plastic gears also open new opportunities for smaller, more. efficient transmissions in many products. What are the payoffs when using plastic gears. in place of metal? Where do they make
  • Improving Appliances with Plastic Gears
    For the appliance engineer, plastic gears are a powerful means to cut cost, weight, noise. and wear. They also open new opportunities for smaller, more efficient drives. What are. the payoffs when using plastic gears in place of metal? The questions are timely as more. engineers turn to plastics
  • Molded Plastic Gear Design
    Gear design and development is a complicated art. Ignore or miscalculate the operating and environmental effects and the likely result is a gear set that doesn't mesh properly, which will cause excessive noise, gear failure, or both. This is especially true for molded plastic gear design, where
  • Design of Plastic Gears
    Plastic gears are continuing to displace metal gears in a widening arena of applications. Their unique characteristics are also being enhanced with new developments, both in materials and processing. In this regard, plastics contrast somewhat dramatically with metals, in that the latter materials
  • The Team Approach to Precision Plastic Gearing
    Since antiquity, gears and gear systems have constantly been developed and improved. This continuing process includes the evolution of plastic gears, which started out as a curiosity 60 years ago and today are an industrial mainstay. Found initially in many small applications, plastic gears are now
  • How to Replace Metal with Plastic in Gear Applications
    With over 40 years of combined experience, please join Rod Kleiss and Frank Ferfecki as they discuss the process of converting metal gears to high performance VICTREX (R) PEEK TM polymer gears. This webinar covers topics such as plastic gear design, material selection, precision tooling
  • A Plastic Gear Design Update
    This article appeared in the May 11, 2006 issue of "Machine Design" magazine under the title,. "No More 'Girlie Man' Gears: Advanced Polymers Let Designers Replace Metals in Large,. Complex Gear Sets that Can Carry Heavy Loads and Survive Harsh Environments."
  • Exploiting the Potential of Plastics Gears
    Plastic gears are now being used in drives of higher power and higher precision than in the past. They afford appliance designers dramatic opportunities to reduce drive cost, noise and weight. However, due to the properties of engineering resins, plastic gears require a greater engineering. effort
  • Gear Molding - Where It's Heading
    Plastic gears are growing larger, more precise, more complex in geometry and more powerful. High-performance resins and long-fiber compounds are aiding this evolution.
  • Gearing up for Success! Driving Food Automation
    THE TOP FIVE REASONS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER PLASTIC GEARS AND SPROCKETS
  • How to Achieve a Successful Molded Gear Transmission (.pdf)
    Molded plastic gears have very little in common with machined gears other than the fact that both use the involute for conjugate action. The differences are quite fundamental.
  • A Brief Guide to Selecting Polymer Gears Over Metal Gears
    One option you may not think of when selecting a gearbox for your application? The material of the gears! Gear material can be classified into two types: metal and non-metallic (such as polymer/plastic). Metal gears have several advantages over plastic gears, including higher strength, improved

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