Bevel Gear box assembling
How to Assemble Bevel Gears for Optimum Performance? A Bevel Gear box is a cone-shaped gear which transmits power between the two intersecting axels. Bevel gears can be generally classified into straight bevel gears , which do not have helix angles, and spiral bevel gears which do have helix angles. Since manufacturing facilities for straight bevel gears are becoming rare and straight bevel gears teeth cannot be polished, rendering spiral bevel gears superior in terms of noise reduction, spiral bevel gears are likely to become more common in the future. Bevel gears can be straight, spiral, zerol, and hypoid. Because the shape of these types of bevel gears is basically conical, they all have an optimal position for best performance. This optimum position is usually determined by the bevel gear manufacturers by running tests of individual gear sets. The gearbox designer and assembly technician, however, share responsibility for integrating this ideal positionin...