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Version Number _v39 Sept 2026

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Ride The Gear Train
Gear train calculations for engineer's lathes.
• A 'change gear calculator'.
• Free online program.
• Calculates gear trains for any screw thread.
• Using the gear wheels that you own.
• Metric or imperial threads.
• Metric or imperial lathes.
• Metric/imperial conversion gears.
• Scroll down to find more engineering tools.

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QUICK START GUIDE
• Enter your data in 5 basic steps then RUN
• Step 1: Choose your lathe
• Step 2: Design a gear train. Enter your gears
• Step 3: Choose what you want to calculate
• Step 4: Enter % error you can accept
• Step 5: Enter pitch or TPI or Feed rate
• Click RUN to execute the program
• Change any items in the menu & RUN again
• Review other engineering apps below.
• HELP button to search the help file.

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1A. Choose the Type of Lathe
Lathe Group:
1B. Choose the Lathe Model
Current lathe: Default_Imperial_no_gearbox
2A. Design Your Gear Train
Leadscrew: 8 mm pitch
Number of compound gears in the gear train: 1
2B. Automatic Compound Gears?
Automatically calculate compound gears.
2C. Enter your own gears
List of change gears : 20,24,32,40,46,48,56,60
Manual entry of compound gears is not required.
3A. Calculation Type:
mm pitch, TPI, feed rate...
Calculation requested: mm
4. Enter acceptable % error
Acceptable error in calculations: 0.8%
5. Enter data for thread pitch in mm.
Currently range = single:
threadSize entered as a single value=1.5
6. RUN 'A Ticket to Ride'
7. OPTIONAL ENTRIES:
Enter gear ratios for feed rates,
Set up Fixed Stud Gear or Fixed LSG in
lathes where they cannot be changed
8. EXCLUDE CERTAIN RESULTS
Filter to remove results where:
a gear is too large to fit, or
gears are not on a list provided or
gearbox settings are not on a list provided
Restrictions are turned OFF
9. NEW GEAR:
Find a gear to make or buy.
Do data entry steps 1-5A first, skip RUN
Click here instead: program will find a new gear.
10. CUSTOM GEARBOX
Enter data from the label on your gearbox
11. PREFERENCES for Show & Hide

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ELS: ELECTRONIC LEADSCREW.
METRIC-IMPERIAL CONVERSION GEARS.
Find various pairs of gears for conversion
List compound pairs for any gear ratio
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SINGLE POINT THREADING
Calculates compound slide angle and depth of cut.
TAPPING DRILL SIZES
for tapping threads at various % depth
with metric, imperial or numbered drill sets
TAPER TURNING Calculator
Using the Tailstock Offset method.
Look up standard tapers (e.g.Morse taper)
or enter the angle, slope or gradient
Calculate the tailstock offset required.
CUTTING SPEED Calculator
Design your own cutting speed tables.
Dependence of cutting speed on hardness of materials
HARDNESS of materials
Tables of hardness of various materials.
Color charts for determining temperature of steel during hardening and tempering.
POLYGON CUTTER
Computer simulation of the amazing spinning cutter attachment used for cutting a square, hexagon, or any polygon on a lathe. Determine the gear ratio needed to drive the spinning tool.
HEXAGON or POLYGON
Dimension Calculator: Enter any number of sides. Calculate distance across flats & stock size required
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RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 1A for Mini-Lathes

RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 1B for all other lathes
including South Bend Clones

RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 2 for all users