{"id":7338,"date":"2025-11-04T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:56:05","slug":"cutting-an-actual-involute-gear-part-2-success-at-the-2nd-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7338","title":{"rendered":"Cutting an Actual Involute Gear Part 2 &#8211; Success at the 2nd attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Later in the day yesterday I stripped down the spin indexer and took the division plate off. I mounted it on the dividing head chuck of my Proxxon mini drill and reamed out all of the holes to 5mm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, having ensured that the locking collar was tight on the spin indexer and the Y table locked to ensure a consistent depth of cut, I had another go using the opposite end of my aluminium stub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All went swimmingly and I ended up with a perfect gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3-733x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3-733x1024.jpg 733w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3-768x1072.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3-1100x1536.jpg 1100w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2nd-test-cut-Mod-0.3.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0001-854x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0001-854x1024.jpg 854w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0001-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0001-768x921.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0001.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Test Cut no 2 &#8211; Mod 0.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I need to do it for real to produce the missing final drive gears for my two Shogun Gearboxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later in the day yesterday I stripped down the spin indexer and took the division plate off. I mounted it on the dividing head chuck of my Proxxon mini drill and reamed out all of the holes to 5mm.&nbsp; Then, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear-cutting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}