Shops can now do gear hobbing on the Y axis of the Tornado lathe from Colchester-Harrison of the 600 Group. This ability makes for one-setup operation and eliminates the need for several machines, as ...

KHK has been making metric gears for nearly 90 years. Gear manufacturing requires proper material selection, cutting machines, lathes, rack panels, hobbing machines, teeth shape measurement and more.

Several spherical-shaped mold inserts with varying radii around 1 in. in 0.010-in. increments presented us with a machining challenge. A lathe wouldn't work, so we did the job on a CNC milling machine ...