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Why Not to Use Worm Gears
There is one especially glaring reason why one would not choose a worm gear more than a standard gear: lubrication. The movement between your worm and the wheel gear faces is entirely sliding. There is absolutely no rolling element of the tooth contact or conversation. This makes them relatively difficult to lubricate.
The lubricants required are usually high viscosity (ISO 320 and better) and therefore are challenging to filter, and the lubricants required are usually specialized in what they perform, requiring something to be on-site specifically for that kind of equipment.
Worm Gear Lubrication
The main problem with a worm gear is how it transfers power. It really is a boon and a curse at the same time. The spiral movement allows huge amounts of decrease in a comparatively little bit of space for what’s required if a typical helical equipment were used.
This spiral motion also causes an incredibly problematic condition to be the primary mode of power transfer. That is often called sliding friction or sliding use.
With a typical gear set the power is transferred at the peak load point on the tooth (referred to as the apex or pitchline), at least in a rolling wear condition. Sliding takes place on either part of the apex, however the velocity is relatively low.
With a worm gear, sliding motion is the only transfer of power. As the worm slides worm drive shaft across the tooth of the wheel, it gradually rubs off the lubricant film, until there is absolutely no lubricant film remaining, and for that reason, the worm rubs at the metallic of the wheel in a boundary lubrication regime. When the worm surface leaves the wheel surface, it accumulates more lubricant, and begins the process over again on the next revolution.
The rolling friction on an average gear tooth requires small in the form of lubricant film to fill in the spaces and separate both components. Because sliding happens on either side of the gear tooth apex, a somewhat higher viscosity of lubricant than is definitely strictly necessary for rolling wear must overcome that load. The sliding happens at a comparatively low velocity.
The worm on a worm set gear turns, even though turning, it crushes against the strain that’s imposed on the wheel. The only way to prevent the worm from touching the wheel is certainly to have a film thickness large enough never to have the entire tooth surface area wiped off before that section of the worm has gone out of the strain zone.
This scenario takes a special sort of lubricant. Not only will it should be a comparatively high viscosity lubricant (and the higher the strain or temperature, the higher the viscosity must be), it must have some way to help get over the sliding condition present.
Read The Right Method to Lubricate Worm Gears to learn more on this topic.
Custom Worm Gears
Worm Gears are right angle drives providing large swiftness ratios on comparatively short center distances from 1/4” to 11”. When correctly mounted and lubricated they function as quietist and smoothest running type of gearing. Because of the high ratios feasible with worm gearing, maximum speed reduction could be accomplished in much less space than a great many other types of gearing. Worm and worm gears are powered by nonintersecting shafts at 90° angles.
EFFICIENCY of worm equipment drives depends to a huge level on the helix angle of the worm. Multiple thread worms and gears with higher helix position prove 25% to 50% more efficient than one thread worms. The mesh or engagement of worms with worm gears creates a sliding action leading to considerable friction and better loss of efficiency beyond other styles of gearing. The utilization of hardened and ground worm swith bronze worm gears increases efficiency.
LUBRICATION can be an essential factor to improve performance in worm gearing. Worm equipment action generates considerable heat, decreasing efficiency. The amount of power transmitted at confirmed temperature improves as the performance of the gearing raises. Proper lubrication enhances performance by reducing friction and warmth.
RATIOS of worm equipment sets are dependant on dividing the amount of teeth in the apparatus by the amount of threads. Thus one threads yield higher ratios than multiple threads. All Ever-Power. worm gear sets can be found with either still left or right hands threads. Ever-Power. worm gear sets are offered with Single, Dual, Triple and Qua-druple Threads.
Basic safety PROVISION: Worm gearing should not be used because a locking mechanism to hold large weights where reversing actions can cause harm or injury. In applications where potential harm is nonexistent and self-locking is preferred against backward rotation after that use of a single thread worm with a minimal helix angle immediately locks the worm gear drive against backward rotation.
Materials recommended for worms can be hardened steel and bronze for worm gears. However, depending on the application unhardened steel worms operate adequately and more economically with cast iron worm gears at 50% horsepower ratings. In addition to steel and hardenedsteel, worms are available in stainless, light weight aluminum, bronze and nylon; worm gears can be found in steel, hardened metal, stainless, aluminium, nylon and nonmetallic (phenolic).
Ever-Power also sells equipment tooth measuring devices called Ever-Power! Gear Gages reduce mistakes, save time and money when identifying and ordering gears. These pitch templates can be found in nine sets to recognize all the regular pitch sizes: Diametral Pitch “DP”, Circular Pitch “CP”, External Involute Splines, Metric Module “MOD”, Stub Tooth, Fine Pitches, Coarse Pitches and Unusual Pitches. Refer to the section on GEAR GAGES for catalog numbers when ordering.