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Ride The Gear Train
Gear train calculations for engineer's lathes.
A free online program to calculate
gear trains for any screw thread
with the gear wheels that you own.
• Metric or imperial threads on
• Metric or imperial lathes
• Metric/imperial conversion gears.
• Feed rates, worm gears.
• Extensive help file, and video tutorials (below).
• Extra Apps:
• Thread specifications and tapping drill sizes.
• Create tables of cutting speeds.
• Taper turning calculations.
• Charts for hardness of materials, heat treatment
NEW 1-1-2023
• New red button to search the help file.
• Polygon Cutter Calculations (Step 3)
Contact: AEDLewis at gmail dot com
QUICK START GUIDE
• Try RUN if you want to see what the program does.
• 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,
• RUN again.
EXTRA APPS
Orange buttons: apps that do not require lathe data.
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
Recording Started: 1st of August 2022
Today's date: 31-January-2023
Number of new starts............707
Number of calculation runs.....457
Number of pages loaded.........5,773
RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 1A for Mini-Lathes
RideTheGearTrain Tutorial
Part 1B for all other lathes
including South Bend Clones
Title: Motor Speed Control Electronics for AC and DC motors including PWM Pulse Width Modulation and VFD
Length: 19:27
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