Hobbing/Shaping
Our shop is equipped with both hobs and shapers. If you’re unfamiliar with the names of this equipment, the machines are used to cut and shape splines on shafts, gears and pinions mostly used in agricultural and recreational products. Typically for large production runs, a couple of cutters are purchased and maintained for the specific part, but if you have smaller run lots that don’t come around very often, we have sources that we are able to rent the cutters from. Just supply us the spline data and we’ll gladly get you a quote for your needs. We also have the ability to sharpen our own cutters which alleviate unnecessary down-time waiting for cutters to be returned from the sharpener before being able to finish the production run.
Machines
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BARBER – COLMAN Hobs – Type T Taber Hob
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BARBER – COLMAN – Model 16 – 16 A2
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FELLOWS 4 – GS Gear Shapers
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FELLOWS 6A – Gear Shaper w/5” stroke; 18” max. diameter capacity BARBER – COLMAN Model 10 Gear Shaper with 4” stroke 10” max diameter capacity