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Link to this program: www.RideTheGearTrain.com
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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.
• Polygon Cutter gear ratios.
• Extensive help file, and video tutorials (below).
• Red button to search the HELP file.
• Gearboxes for various lathes are included.
• Custom gearboxes can be added.
• Ask to have your lathe with a gearbox added.
• Extra Apps:
• Thread specifications and tapping drill sizes.
• Create tables of cutting speeds.
• Taper turning calculations.
• Charts for hardness of materials, heat treatment.
• Polygon cutter simulation.
• Electronic Leadscrew Calculations.

RECENT CHANGES
• Restrict results with gears that will not fit
• Enter a list of pitches or TPI to solve them all
• Metric-Imperial conversion gear ratios
• Polygon Cutter Calculations & Simulation
• ELS Electronic Leadscrew Calculations

Contact: AEDLewis at gmail dot com


QUICK START GUIDE
• Enter your own data in steps 1-5 then RUN.

• Step 1 : Choose the brand of your lathe.
• Step 2A: Choose the design of your gear train.
• Step 2B: 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 : Use ONE of the pitch entry methods below
• 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 any items and RUN again.

EXTRA APPS
Orange buttons: apps that do not require lathe data.



MENU

Version Number_v25
1. Lathe Model
Current lathe: Imperial_no_gearbox
2A. Design Your Gear Train
Number of compound gears in the gear train: 1
Manual entry of compound gears:
2B. Enter your own gears
List of change gears: 20,24,32,40,46,48,56,60
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
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Exclude Large Gears-Optional
Gear Size Restrictions are turned OFF
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: SEARCH THE HELP FILE
PREFERENCES for Show & Hide

OTHER ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
ELS: ELECTRONIC LEADSCREW.
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
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POLYGON CUTTER-Generate Images
DELETE All my data and start again
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Started : 20-May-2023
Today is: 3-October-2023 USA-EST
Number of new starts...........17
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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
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Evan's YouTube Lathe Channel
evan-e-cent Number 11
Title: Cutting a metric thread, milling saw use & turning flat surfaces on imperial engineers metal lathe
Length: 11:26

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