Re: Worm gear material

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:15:58 GMT

operator jay wrote:
> "N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@nospam.com> wrote in
> message news:xNIQd.69767$Yu.39955@fed1read01...
>
>>Dear CWatters:
>>
>>"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
>>news:n7EQd.12881$vM2.917609@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
>>
>>>"colenum" <m.colenutt@virgin.net> wrote in message
>>>news:1108542347.166821.35130@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know the chemical composition and mechanical properties of
>>>>Rd65 VL22 Copper alloy. Or where I could get it from. Also the
>>>>Standard from which this material comes from would be useful.
>>>>
>>>>I have searched the internet and am unable to find its specification.
>>>
>>>Try..
>>>http://www.anchorbronze.com/crossdata.htm
>>>
>>>all I could google was...
>>>
>>>http://www.morat.com/US/sch_rad/info.html
>>>
>>>"Materials - The worms are case-hardened; the bore and worm flanks are
>>>ground. Standard worm gears are made from VL22, a copper-zinc alloy
>
> with
>
>>>aluminium, silicon and manganese additives."
>>
>>Copper and zinc make brass. You did a lot better than I did. I could
>
> find
>
>>no listing of anything useful on google with the information supplied.
>>Good work!
>>
>>David A. Smith
>>
>>
>
>
> I thought 9 copper : 1 tin was brass. And that 1 copper : 9 tin was bronze.
> I thought some math textbook from when I was a kid said this. Maybe 9
> copper : 1 tin for BRONZE would be okay, judging by a few internet pages.
> Is there some other thing which is 10% copper, 90% tin? I saw some mention
> of pewter with this kind of ratio. To the OP's question, I didn't even know
> that worms had gears.
>
> j
>
>

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