Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Digest Number 4365

Blue wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I thought Brown & Sharpe was an American company? I wonder why they are
>using a Whitworth thread profile and not UNC.
>
>

This is not a SCREW, it is a GEAR! That makes a big difference. To
make the
geometry even more complicated, the gear turns in one plane while the worm
wheel turns in a different plane rotated by 90 degrees.

Jon