Milling, Hobbing and other processes

We use the hobbing, milling, generating and 3D Printing processes for commercial quality gears found in machine tools and power transmission, up to higher quality gears for advanced applications. Gear types include Spur, Helical, Worm, Wormwheel, Ratchet, Sprocket, Spline and Non-Involute Forms.

Inspection

Measurement over Pins (MOP) or Measurement over Wires(MOW) methods, Dual Flank testing with Vari-Roll, Span, and other methods.

AGMA Quality Standards

Tolerances can be measured in our Microgear system and deliver reports. We use NIST calibrated measuring instruments and maintain our membership with AGMA giving us access to the latest industry standards and gear technology.

Quality Shop

We maintain an ISO-9001:2015 certificate

We practice the Gear Art here. We have a unique set of both design skills and a shop floor of gear machines not commonly found together. If you want to speed up your gear knowledge this is the place to come. Compared to most mechanisms, gears pose a large learning curve. Get there faster.

Calculators

We've shared our in-house tools to help you design, inspect, and make your own gears. From our gear calculators to 3D gear generators these tools will make gear production easier and more understandable. Change Gear Calculator and other indexing machine setup tools and services.

Short Courses

Gears for Makers, a comprehensive one-day course to cover the history, math, and techniques to get you making gears in your own shop. The course is located in our Ventura California shop where we will split our time between design, calculating and measuring, and half our time to machining hobbing or shaping gears.

Over the years we have helped many companies. Come and learn how to give your product motion. College Baja teams, startups, mature companies developing new products, the curious ones, mature companies getting their supply chain fixed, the reverse engineering of parts to keep old equipment running and the list goes on.