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    jig designing

    Hi naheed, There are quite a number of good books on Jigs and fixture. To name a few 1. Tool Design - Donaldson and Gould 2. Title I forget --- S.A.J. Parsons 3. Jigs and fixtures- Joshi 4. Jigs and fixture - Hoffman The books will give a guidance and the necessary principles involved...
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    S-N CURVE FOR GEAR MATERIALS

    I require S-N (stress Vs Number of cycles ) curve details for EN353 to determine life of a gear pair.Where can I get the details?
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    Backlash in planetary gear trains

    S correction refers to the technique of profile modification of gears to give some desirable characteristic to the gear such as higher load carrying or higher contact ratio. In an S corrected gear the profile shift given to the cutter is not equal for pinion and gear. In the case of an So...
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    Backlash in planetary gear trains

    Can someone tell me how backlash could be specified in a Planetary gear train( Planet and sun and between planet and annulus). All the gears are corrected to give high load carrying capacity. Is it true that a S corrected gear works with zero backlash .
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    shift factor in involute spline

    hi, To my knowledge shift factor, is a correction factor given to involute gearing for modification of tooth profile. Such gears are called corrected gears. Gears may have to be corrected for avoiding interference in cases where the minimum no. of teeth do not comply with the required one...

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