Posted by BillS on August 14, 2009 at 10:50:44:
In Reply to: Re: Question about a Gleason no. 104 bevel machine posted by Sp on August 14, 2009 at 07:35:53:
Thanks Sp. You are right - there are no spacers, and the adjustment (cutter offset) was the problem. Client has a Metric 104 machine, and I thought the inch cutter offset would simply convert to mm. Actually, there is a difference in the way Gleason calculates the metric offset. Once this was understood, the machine cut a good gear.
As an example, the cutter offset for an inch machine is 0.495. One might think that the metric machine setting would simply be 0.495 x 25.4 = 12.57.
Not so fast - there is a metric version of offset calculations. Recalculating the metric versions, the correct metric setting is 9.875 !
It seems that "0" on metric verniers do not line up with "0" on verniers applied to an inch machine.
Aaaahhhhh!