Our thoughtful contributor sends the following insight: “Sometimes in the process of milling process we change their thickness for technological reasons. We can do it because the roughing hob tooth ...

The ubiquitous ball spline. Basically, it is a type of mechanical element used in a variety of industrial applications where precise movement and alignment is required, like machine tools, robot arms ...

Contributor Mark Grizotsky has developed another timely insight: “When tool-designers develop roughing hobs for milling roughing straight-side spline shifts, they must remember this about the wear of ...

Quick, what’s 360 divided by 23? It’s easy enough to get the answer, of course, but if you need to machine a feature every 15.652 degrees around a shaft, how exactly would you accomplish that? There ...

For high torque, simultaneous axial displacement applications, engineers can now get their hands on norelem’s splined shafts and splined hubs, available in a range of standard sizes and materials.

Ball splines and bearings: each play a role in mechanical function, and each are unique. All types of machinery are provided with supports for rotating shafts, and that supporting device is a ...