The Gear Works has greatly improved its internal spline and keyway broaching service with the recent installation of a 75 HP, 50 ton, horizontal broaching machine with a 72″ stroke . Broaching is a machining process that finishes a simple or complex bore by pulling a multi-tooth tool called a broach through the part. Because the part is finished in one pass, broached parts are inexpensive and true to size.
Since 1918 the Ballard Bridge has served as a major link to N.W. Seattle by providing access for 52,000 vehicles a day over the Lake Washington Ship Canal. During the year, the bridge will open approximately 5,200 times for boat traffic.
The Gear Works proudly announces the commissioning of its new 5 Axis Boring Machine, specifically designed for precision boring, milling, drilling and contour machining of large complex parts.
The Gear Works is pleased to announce that recent modifications to its Gleason – Pfauter P1600G gear grinding machine have greatly expanded pinion shaft grinding capacity. Now, large pinion and spline shafts, up to seventeen feet in overall length, can economically obtain profile tooth grinding to AGMA Q-13+ tolerances.
The Gear Works proudly announces the commissioning of its latest investment in world-class measurement technology: The Brown & Sharpe “Global Image” coordinate measuring machine. Model 15-30-10.
Final Inspection of clutch Housings in The Gear Works metrology lab.
Measurement Capacity:
1,500 MM Width (X Axis)
3,000 MM Length (Y Axis)
1,000 MM Height (Z Axis)
Volumetric Accuracy: 0.00039″
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The Gear Works is pleased to announce its latest acquisition and installation of world class machining technology: 72″ Giddings and Lewis Vertical Turning & Milling Center. Now, large parts can be turned, milled, drilled, tapped, and inspected in one efficient set-up by utilizing multiple on-board machining functions, such as the 25 H.P. live milling spindle and 12 station tool changer.
When Halverson Construction Company was awarded the contract to refurbish the lift machinery on the Joe Page Bridge, they turned to The Gear Works to provide the replacement span lift gearboxes.
The Gear works is proud to have participated in NASA’s exploration project that successfully deployed two robots to the planet Mars last January. The government’s research and development facility, Jet Propulsion Laboratories of Pasadena, California, was responsible for design and construction of the space vehicles, called Landers, and the mobile geology labs, called Rovers, which were contained in the Landers. The $820,000,000 Mars Exploration Mission was designed to reveal the role of water in the planet’s history, and to determine if it may have ever sparked any form of life.
The Gear Works is proud to announce the commissioning of additional capacity and productivity in its mid-range gear cutting department with the installation of a Mitsubishi CNC gear hobbing machine, model GB100CNC. Now, gears up to 39” diameter can be cut in small order quantities with the same efficiencies as large lot production. The 33,000-pound machine consists of a robust cast iron frame that insures maximum rigidity when aggressive feed rates are employed. A Fanuc CNC controller insures the accurate synchronization of all five machine axis, including “crowning” capabilities.
The Gear Works is proud to announce its latest investment in additional machining capacity with the acquisition of a MAZAK Integrex 50 Turning and Milling Center. Now, complex mid-size parts can be turned, bored, milled, drilled and slotted in one efficient set-up. This multi-functional capability eliminates the need for time-consuming queues in front of different machine centers.
