Holtzapffel setup is tedious...

Group,

I have a friend with one of the "modern" Holtzapffel's. It's made by
a man who owns a gear cutting company in Kansas(?). My friend has
owned this one for several years. All I can say when I look at the
mechanisms and piles of gears, etc is I'm glad I have CNC machines.
Talk about a tedious machine to setup. Now my friend wants to go
with a small 4 axis CNC mill which with some very clever programming
with do almost any thing a Holtzapffel will do.

Doug

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Wayde C Gutman <wcgutman@m...>
wrote:

> Now I wished I had kept that article....
>
> In one of the metal working publication [1996 ?], can not remember
> which, there was an article about a owner of a gear manufacturer who
> became enamoured with the Holtzapffel, started up production of an
> modern version of the machine. The newer version stayed with the

concept

> and design of the original, just uses modern material, cost was some
> where in the ballpark of $25K. Don't remember the name of the

company or

> the owner, sorry.