On the left is the gear-drive cam and its distributor drive gear, while the pair on the right are for conventional chain drive. Notice the different helix angle of the gears. Shown here are the cam ...

National Gear Repair has released a new technical video showcasing the complete rebuild and reassembly of a massive Gloucester industrial gear drive, giving maintenance teams, plant managers, and ...

Quite a few years ago, Iskenderian Racing Cams introduced a gear drive setup for small-block Chevy engines to replace the somewhat undependable chain drive system. The main drawback with Isky's ...

The mechanized world is dominated by rotating shafts, each designed to turn at a particular speed and torque. On one end of the shaft, quite often, is an electric motor — the prime mover. On the other ...

The most reliable means for changing shaft speed remains a mechanical variable-speed transmission. These drives are used to provide a variable output speed from a constant-speed power source (as in a ...