Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
Colvin and Stanley will teach you how to cut gears in this reprint of their 1937 text, subtitled "Methods for Producing Gears for Commercial Use".
Chapters include gear cutting practice, spur gears and circular cutters, shaping method of cutting gears, helical and herringbone gears, hobs and gear cutters, bevel gears, worms and worm gears, internal gears, heat treatment, burnishing, shaving, lapping and grinding gear teeth and more!
This book was written for industry so there will be a lot of material you can't use. But it's better to get too much information rather than not enough. You'll get an education in gear geometry, the best alloy compositions to use for gears (in 1937 that is), specs on keyways, using the dividing head, comparison of hobbing verses milling gear teeth, commercial hobbing machines available, vertical shapers designed for cutting gears, details on hobs, their use and sharpening and on and on.
You get charts, tables, nomographs, photographs, drawings, and more. It's heavily illustrated. Again, you'll see a lot of big machinery since this is an industry text. If you cut gears or ever intend to, this reference will teach you something practical even if you only have a 3" lathe with a milling attachment. A standard work by the standard dynamic machine shop duo: Colvin and Stanley.
Code No. 004473, 344 pages, $36.50