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Ride The Gear Train
Gear train calculations for engineer's lathes.
This free online program calculates the best gear train to use to produce any required screw thread with the gear wheels that you own. Metric or imperial or mixed with a list of conversion gears. Calculates feed rates, cutting speeds, worm gears, taper turning, thread specifications. Charts for hardness of materials, heat treatment, and tapping drill sizes. Extensive help file, and video tutorials.



QUICK START GUIDE
• Try RUN if you want to see what the program does.
• Click DRAW to see a scale drawing of gear train.
• Any problems? Watch the tutorial videos shown below.
• Return to the MENU. Look through all the options.
• Enter your own data in steps 1-5 then RUN.

• Step 1: Choose the brand of your lathe.
• Step 2: Enter the gears you own for the gear train.
• Step 3: Choose what you want to calculate
• Step 4: Enter the % error you are willing to accept.
• Step 5: For threads use ONE pitch entry method:
• Step 5A just enter the pitch or TPI, then RUN
• Step 5B produces a table for multiple thread sizes,
• Step 5C Use standard thread tables (eg UNF).
• Step 6: Click RUN to execute the program.
• Return to menu to alter one or more items,
eg change the acceptable error.
• RUN again.

EXTRA APPS
See the orange buttons for additional apps that do not require lathe data. e.g. Extensive data on threads and drill sizes for tapping. New versions uploaded in 2022: 28 Jan, 6 Feb, 14 Mar, 21 Mar, 11 Apr.1 May.



MENU


Ride The Gear Train Version: Number_v15
1. Lathe Model
Current lathe: Imperial_no_gearbox
2. Gear selection
Leadscrew: 8
Number of compound gears in the gear train: 1
List of change gears: 20,24,32,40,46,48,56,60
Manual entry of compound gears:
List of compound gears: 127/100,80,63
3. Calculation Type:
mm pitch, TPI, feed rate...
Calculation requested: mm pitch
4. Enter acceptable % error
Acceptable error in calculations: 2%
5A. Enter a single value
for mm pitch
mm pitch: 5
5B. Enter a range of values
for mm pitch
5C. Look up reference tables
for mm pitch
6. RUN 'A Ticket to Ride'
OPTIONAL ENTRIES:
Change Leadscrew, Feed rates,
Fixed Stud Gear, Fixed LSG, Fudge Factor
NEW GEAR:
Find a gear to make or buy.
Do data entry steps 1-5A first, skip RUN
CUSTOM GEARBOX
Enter data from the label on your gearbox
HELP & INFORMATION
PREFERENCES for Show & Hide
METRIC-IMPERIAL CONVERSION GEARS.
or list compound pairs for any gear ratio
THREAD SPECIFICATIONS & DRILL SIZES
for tapping threads at various % depth
TAPER TURNING with Tailstock Offset
CUTTING SPEED Tables & Calculator
HARDNESS of materials and heat treatment
DELETE All my data and start again
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RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 1A for Mini-Lathes

RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 1B for all other lathes
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RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
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