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Tubalcain shows how to cut an involute spur gear by the plain indexing method.
Be sure and watch all 10 videos on the topics of dividing heads & gear cutting.

[@nickmcnellis3937]

Can't thank you enough for these professional quality lessons. They have more timeless value than you could ever know. You remind me of a classic shop teacher from back in the day.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@oBseSsIoNPC]

Absolutely top notch information. Using the machinery handbook and these fantastic, real world experience based videos. One can "easily" get into machining. I am getting my milling machine this week and I am looking forward to making gears by next week! Thanks so much for the detailed and comprehensive content!

[@mrpete222]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jeffreymiller4624]

Hi mr pete, I have worked in a machine shop for 20 plus years and i still learn things from your videos. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with all of us viewers. God bless you, Jeffrey Miller

[@MrKillavolt]

I wish more people could enunciate like you do, Mr, Pete. No hahs, ers or ohs. It is refreshing.

[@mrpete222]

Shawn Strauss THANK YOU!

[@bluehornet6752]

mrpete222 The other thing that I love that you do, is the hand-written cards. Those visual aids are a very helpful reference for us to look at while you are discussing something. It's very easy to see your tremendous experience in the classroom. Incredibly effective learning. I also subscribed to your courses over on the LFE site. Very high-quality teaching there, and I am finding that the South Bend course is extremely helpful to me, even though I own a Logan lathe instead of the SB. In fact I am waiting for the last of those lubricants to arrive now--the Mobil DTE heavy medium. Then the chips will be flying!

[@chrisnolan2473]

I haven't worked in a machine shop for 45 years, and my reckoning skills are creaky. I watched this video because I'm selling Bridgeport mills with attachments and tooling for a tool & die maker who's in the old folks' home...and it is thrilling! Real, concrete, factual work, an antidote to know-nothingness! Thank you. Can't wait to show it to my friend, too.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@achalasamarasekara650]

Holy hell that ending when you meshed the gears and spun them was so satisfying after all that work. You're an excellent teacher. Keep up the great work :)

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@bruceraggett4506]

@@mrpete222 3 years later and you just made my day. Thanks and Hi from New Zealand.

[@gordonburns6721]

Quote: "I always feels an air of tension cutting the last tooth". Absolutely no need to feel tension, sir...you know your stuff and people who know their stuff get things right! Another great video. Thank you once again.

[@mrpete222]

+Gordon Burns Thanks-you are more confident than I.

[@gordonburns6721]

No sir, I am as confident as you! Your methods and practices are there to teach others in the finer arts of workshop practice. You are clearly American (I loath the common Americanism 'delaying sounds'; the words: err... ahh... ohh... orr... mid-sentence hesitations, which you, in your KZbin demonstrations completely avoid)! You speak authoritatively as an expert in your field and do not include these unintelligent 'spacing words' within your narrative. And that is why I enjoy running your videos, and will continue doing so. Nice work Mister Pete!

[@mrpete222]

+Gordon Burns Thanks again--we were taught in speech classes to avoid that---& I try hard to avoid it.. But it happens--and people that do it probably cannot break the habit.

[@aintgonnahappen]

You are a great teacher Mr Pete! Thank you.

[@RickRose]

I have this job in my near future--thanks for the timely video Mr. Pete.

[@ConstructIcon]

This is so awesome!! I just got my hands on a Bridgeport & I’m excited about all the possibilities! I will definitely be referencing back to this and many of your other videos when I’m all set up . Thanks!

[@mrpete222]

Thank you. Congratulations on your new milling machine

[@johngubler1260]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the work you put into these videos. You have a talent for clearly explaining and demonstrating the the task at hand in a manner that eliminates any confusion. look forward to watching the rest of this series thanks again and keep up the good work!

[@etaunknown4024]

To be honest, hes to good to be doing these. To the point that his knowledge makes the information hard to retain because of the amount thats being laid down. Excessive talking about things that dont matter like safety or just in case bla bla bla. I'm not here for safety or bla bla bla so having to hear it makes me forget why I even came to begin with. Nobody cares about the fuckn labor pains, they just wanna see the damn baby ffs!

[@stella9846]

Indexing l like to owner one l have lung cancer and not know what price if Mr cane will sell any of histools

[@pbooth001]

If it wasn't so cold I would be out right now trying my hand at cutting a gear set. Thanks again for passing your knowledge on to me.

[@isbcornbinder]

Now, that was fantastic and very clearly explained. Good Job.

[@morrisgallo2361]

Thank you for excellent video. Especially appreciate your tips on setup and emphasizing "spaces" not holes.

[@michaelmarks8954]

Mr Pete, I enjoy ALL your KZbin videos you remind me so much of my Dad a WW II Submarine Sailor you both do not do a task so it's right you do it until it's PERFECT. I have no machinist machines and do all my machining with a ShopSmith and hand tools, I am saving for a small to medium South Bend lathe missed your DVD sale a short while back but still plan to purchase the South Bend DVD. Thanks Mike

[@carver3419]

Excellent presentation. Clearest explanation I've seen ....

[@mfletch392]

Thank you Mr Pete sir your a true gentleman I found this video one of the best I've seen on gear cutting and it has made the use of my small indexing head much easer to understand thank again and have a virtual pint on me.

[@johnbazaar8440]

Thanks for this video. I'll be needing this information in the near future.

[@garyc5483]

Excellent, many thanks for sharing. regards from the UK

[@a330turbinex7]

Very good! Really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks a lot mr.Pete. It makes me remember the time when I studied Mill and Lathe in my formation. Thanks.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@messenger8279]

Excellent videos as always. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@megaelectronvolt8422]

Your videos always help me in my machining classes. They are a great supplement to my textbook (oftentimes better than the textbook and my teachers) thanks for doing this!

[@mrpete222]

Mega Electronvolt Thanks you very much!

[@MaturePatriot]

It was never explained like that to me in HS. My first year teacher took another job, and we got an inexperienced teacher/machinist for my second year. Very educational. I think I would write out the steps so I could follow them on each tooth until I got in the swing of things.

[@NickBrunsky]

Grandpa? I love your video, great job sharing your experienced. Look forward seeing your next either helical/spiral/hypoid Bevel gears on how to calculate, build & cut gears on that. This is really very simple to understand without confusion. It's really great to keep up a good work sharing that to us.

[@matthewpolansky1762]

Your videos are always so well and simply explained thank you. I'm setting up a machine shop out in the east Thanks

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@lkytdsvc]

Very , very well explained. I have some gears to cut for a 1935 tank and after seeing this I think I will attempt to make them myself. Great job.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@bernienufc3166]

that has to be the best presented tutorial i have watched, now to watch the others, thank you, brilliant sir.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you

[@freezerburn04]

You Sir are a baaaad man! My time well spent and I like to think that my '48 Aerosedan might agree:) I learned to tig stainless and will one day put your (back burner) info to work for me as well. Thanks a ton captain! Be cool, freeze'

[@MrJugsstein]

all ways clear with traffic clarity on the formulars thanks Will

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@general5104]

Hidy to ya. I appreciate all your work. Thanks for showing formulas & what they do and how they pertain to actually cutting the material. Thanks for narrating the videos so nicely & being clear about everything. And finally, thank you for all the prep work and setups and the editing and posting of the videos. THANK YOU ! YOU ARE APPRECIATED !!! Here's a tip, you probably already know, you can get permanent Sharpie-Marker off of most surfaces by scribbling the mark with a DRY ERASE MARKER, and then immediately wiping it all off with a good quality paper towel. It works best on non- porous surfaces. I used to be a Machinist / Tool & Die Maker and switched careers where I got a good paying and stable job as an Electrician. I still practiced machinist things, but only as a hobby. All during that time, my spare time I was always on call for Volunteer Fire & Rescue. I'd jump & run at a moments notice, (if I wasn't at my job. I told the Fire Chief, when I was on the clock at work, that he wouldn't see me standing on the tailboard.) I did fire and rescue, till my back got banged up at work. I reluctantly came out of the fire Department. I did 21 years in it & almost 38 years as an Electrician, before I retired. My balance is gone and my health is kinda-ok. I still do some lathe work and make or weld up something and re-work parts to keep my equipment operational. I'm working on a center pulley movable base for a drill press, now. I've got it out of the machine. Now to figure out how to get it out of the mount, as it's dropped into the pulley. I'll eventually find a video on that. THANKS TUBAL CAIN

[@mrpete222]

Thank you for watching and four A nice comment

[@ErnieNoa3]

Another good explanation of direct indexing. Thanks.

[@nigelalan1493]

this is an excellent video and as a retired toolmaker l could not fault it . really good presentation.

[@BillChennault]

Thank you for creating this video!

[@toddpf]

I hope to have your amazing skills one day. I'm working on it!

[@micmike]

I sure do enjoy your lessons Sir.

[@mrpete222]

Glad to hear it

[@pierresgarage2687]

Hi mrpete, Thanks for your trouble, like always this video gave me more infos to store in my brain cells... Cheers, Pierre

[@mrpete222]

pierre beaudry Thanks for watching

[@NOSLEEPATALL]

When we bought the building we rented space in for 12 years we scored a rotary table and a dividing head before they hit the recycling bin. I do believe it was tubalcain that showed me the basics on how to figure the Dividing out along with another web page to pick out the numeric ring

[@vajake1]

This was a great video series. Thanks so much for posting it!

[@bradeneliseo5497]

I dont mean to be off topic but does anybody know of a tool to log back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my password. I love any tricks you can give me.

[@alaricfinn9801]

@Braden Eliseo instablaster :)

[@bradeneliseo5497]

@Alaric Finn Thanks for your reply. I found the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@bradeneliseo5497]

@Alaric Finn It worked and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thanks so much you really help me out :D

[@alaricfinn9801]

@Braden Eliseo Happy to help :D

[@sanni9312]

Taught like a professor thanks

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@bbigboy01]

Great/clear explanation of the indexing tool!

[@mrpete222]

👍

[@barajee896]

sir you're videos is very helpful. thanks a lot for information and upload this video.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@tamacunhabana4872]

Great teacher,thank you.

[@chennemeyer]

Wow really great, I totally understand for the first time, thank you!

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@kendallcomeaux46]

Thanks for the explanation of a complex subject. I feel as though I am in your class room every time, especially now that you are using a white on black format! Just no chalk dust or erasers to clap.

[@jamiebuckley1769]

very enjoyable mr pete and also very imformative. you make it look so easy. i have a grizzly dividing head still in the box after 8 months im going to check that head out one of these days and see about mounting a chuck to it. im new to all this machineing as i only purchased a 9x49 trump mill which is a bridgport clone 8 months ago. i have a gear on my 1939 16 inch southbend lathe that is missing one tooth thats the gear that puts it into low range. you have inspired me to fix that.exelent video as always thanks for sharing.

[@mrpete222]

Jamie Buckley Thanks for watching. I have a video coming soon, about gear making for a SB. But its not really much different than the logan one.

[@captainlee1]

Thank you for your wonderful videos happy thanksgiving....:O)

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

Very interesting. Thanks for the video.

[@MyShopNotes]

Great vid Mr Pete. I have a dividing head I have yet to put to the test.

[@Tryin2FlyII]

Great video, Most of the time I just used the paper method to set the mesh of my gears I never knew there was a formula to set the exact mesh distance pretty cool Thanks

[@cccook4819]

Thanks for the kerosene usage we call it paraffin in the UK so many people do not know it the best for Aluminum.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you, paraffin is wax in America

[@bookerol]

So well presented and explained. Now, if I just had a mill and an indexing head...

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@TheBlackZO6]

I cant speak to the gear cutting info, I dont know enough about it. But I will say this is an excellent video, each step was clearly explained. Smartly edited as well, I wish more youtube videos were done like this!

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@localbroadcast]

I use my dads tools 20 times as often as he does... it took him 2 years to realize that I had his flat head screwdriver in my main tool bag that I use for work on the daily.. I had to return it to him today. coincidence is that its the same screwdriver as the one you are using to point at stuff in this video! (clear, blue, and red handle). just thought it was kinda neat as its a pretty aged driver! The quality stuff stands the test of time of course!

[@Fred196407]

Excellent Video Mr Pete. The dividing head or indexing head is something I'm looking to purchase very soon to compliment my Harrison T300 and about to purchase milling machine. Very good of you to take the time to teach the world you're knowledge. Once of a day if you wasn't in the trade but had an interest you could ask a Engineer and be told something like "I did a 6-7 year apprenticeship to learn that" or comments like Trade Secret. The internet is a wonderful tool in the right hands. Thank you.

[@mrpete222]

Fred196407 Thanks. The index heads are kind of pricey

[@Fred196407]

mrpete222 Yes they are. Especially good ones. I'll make do with a Vertex till a good one comes along.

[@safwatmokhtar3115]

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[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@roaldacero4876]

Thank's for the video sir very informative i'm learning🙂

[@caseyhutson3572]

Excellent video!

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@MrShobar]

Excellent job. Many thanks.

[@infoanorexic]

Sound is another way to confirm a correct mesh between gears. Sometimes an assembly is in a position where you can't get in to measure. When I installed a PTO on my RAM pickup, the instructions were to (before replacing the oil) leave the shift cover off, start the truck, engage the clutch and listen for about 30 seconds. If the mesh is within tolerances, there will be no change in how the transmission sounds. If the mesh is too tight, it will whine. Too loose, it will rattle. This requires good hearing, these days I have to 'borrow' a younger set of ears to listen for me or use a mechanics stethoscope ... so, youngsters, protect your hearing as well as your eyes.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@strangerh1134]

sound and shape is so nice

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@friendlypiranha774]

That was so interesting, thanks.

[@68sweetnovember]

Excellent !!

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@rajnishkatarne]

wow Fascinating thanks sir

[@DriveShaftDrew]

wow I guess that's why I not a machinist don't have the patience for all that figuring and measuring even get tired trying to watch and figure it out your great buddy super job

[@elh3809]

phantastisch mr pete

[@stuemany]

Very clear!

[@darrenmartin2195]

Excellent, thanks.

[@6NBERLS]

Most excellent.

[@joely112001]

I just saw the light !!!!!!! thank you ;]

[@ofujuncky]

Thanks most informative!

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@MrJoshuaBolster]

Great video! Just for clarification plain indexing is also know as simple indexing.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@automan1223]

we usually measure gear clearance by the backlash method, using a dial indicator and a calibrated arm...

[@jcknives4162]

I'm' not a fan of Shars so that might be the problem. Thank you for this video. It is absolutely fascinating and I do plan to cut gears. I have a bull gear on my SB that has a tooth missing. If possible, would you suggest a proper material for these gears and or would you heat treat them? I am a knife maker so I do my own heat treat with a digital kiln and stainless foil wrap. Thanks again!!

[@kevCarrico]

since the spring is so strong inside the direct index pin, might it be cool to replace the knurled thumb screw that keeps it out of the way (when not needed) with a knurled thumb screw with the addition of a allen/hex key insert for "super tightening" without resorting to using pliers (which can easily start to chew things up)? perhaps it as simple as using a cap screw itself?

[@jmanatee]

Thank you

[@ramzyramzy3869]

you are great man thanks alot

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@irshadahmed6040]

Very nice sir

[@alpeshtalpada9601]

Nice video

[@ClownWhisper]

I've seen a whole bunch of R8 arbors that are threaded off center a tiny tiny bit introducing a wobble

[@markpatterson7070]

Thanks so much for the video!!!!!!!!!!1

[@asharahmadarrauf]

how to get away with the backlash on dividing heads. i have seen theres some backlash in my dividing head's worm reduction

[@kwman69r]

My question is how to cut same gear with shoulders on both sides to aid in preventing belt run off. Thanks for your time !

[@Bartolobot]

Ohh Mr. Pete your too funny!...... "Count out loud to your self "

[@kishansharma94]

usrful vedio for bigners

[@Thomas-cz3vi]

I have that DRO and my top display only has the line on it like yours does, is there an issue with yours or can you help me with my issue so i have two axis readouts. Thank You for your video and your help.

[@speedhuntersrb]

Today on traning i try to create ty for video

[@jeevankumarreddyravuru8710]

super video

[@eddiebrooks7856]

on the subject of gears could you show cutting spline ggears and shaft ?

[@mohamedmousa4703]

very thanks for shown

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for watching

[@badyawtv5996]

Mr.Pete what if I am going to make 2 slots (0 and 180 degree) using 15 holes plate.(20 complete turns). Should I still not count the hole where the pin is engaged? Thank you!

[@Joel1Mc]

Excelente explicación , tu libro de consultas donde lo consigo y cómo es el título?

[@raulmccai6027]

The reason the cutter spun unevenly is probably the slop between the cutter ID and the arbor OD. Possibly that can be corrected with tenth shim steel. worth a try anyway.

[@elser2utube]

Very informative video, and very well presented material. I am just starting out in machining and I just got a rotary table along with a indexing kit. What is the name of that textbook and where can I buy a copy? It seems to be a very handy reference.

[@general5104]

Machinist's Bible is one of many.

[@matthewcornelius5862]

I always search Martin sprocket and gear to see if they make the gear blank needed. If so, I search that part number on ebay. For instance, that 30 tooth I can get for $24.50 on ebay. From there you can machine its physical shape to whatever you want. I enjoy making parts myself but like they say, time is money!

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@matthewcornelius5862]

@@mrpete222 I love what you do on KZbin. Keep up the great work!

[@indianmolds]

One can Dial zero the top face of the Cutter and match it with the top Quadrant of the Arbor than move the cutter to the center. It's should be more accurate! Overall Nice video for beginners. Thanks.

[@aboahmadaboahmad3513]

Excellent ممتاز

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@ClownWhisper]

You know I made some gears using direct indexing.... it just so happened I needed some 24 tooth gears for a project that I'm building so I lucked out on my first gears and was able to use direct indexing but the question is really unrelated I used a Chinese Arbor that has multiple bushings up and down the thing and they all seem to wobble during the operation there was nothing I could do to steady them... Weather this had any affect on my gears finish or not I am not sure. I guess all I'm asking is this normal for these bushings to not sit quite right? I mean they seem to hold the gear cutter in place fine I guess that's all that really matters but I was just uneasy about the whole thing and wanted to ask an expert their opinion so that's what I'm doing.

[@dfhdhdfjgjgjgf1355]

Great lesson. Do you have a lesson for a rotary table housing - rigidity theory?

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@abdulkhalegalghamdi6635]

Great👌

[@bbumpy4523]

Is it a 29:30 gear ratio?..........or a 30:29 gear ratio?.......I guess it depends on which gear is the driver & which is the driven. Great series Mr. Pete! If only I had a dividing head :-)