Guster
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I'll get back with hopefully in a day or so on this. I'm still trying to get the DRO working and some tooling... in the middle of some fence jobs here at the house for the G/F. I may try to get the rear end these are going in apart tonight. I'm hoping I can get the measurements from the OEM gears, the new gears it really doesn't matter about the outer tooth profile, just the inner profile for the splined shaft. I did pick up a rotary table for "rough" cutting, it has some run out in it, but it'll probably be ok for use cutting circles or something if I cannot adjust the backlash out of it. It's 12 inch.
That is the hard part too. Most decent machinist have indexers and even the basic ability to single point fly-cut a basic gear tooth if they don't have the outlay for the right cutter. However the internal splines require either a specialised broach with a decent press or indexed cutting with a shaper/slotter head on a mill unless a dedicated slotter is at hand. This is why I keep my old shaper running as a custom job like this requires no specialised tooling. Others do it using their lathe by fabricating a means to index and lock the spindle and broaching the part by pushing a tool with the saddle which is also very labour intensive.