Plastic gears fail for many of the same reasons metal ones do, including wear, scoring, plastic flow, pitting, fracture, and fatigue. The cause of these failures is also essentially the same.

We’ve seen several methods of repairing plastic gears. After all, a gear is usually the same all the way around, so it is very tempting to duplicate a good part to replace a damaged part. Tha… ...

plastic gears 1 Articles . Home Made Gears Save This Shredder. June 23, 2019 by Jenny List 16 Comments . It’s very likely that a majority of readers will have had a gear fail in a piece of ...

The use of plastic gears is limited, largely because it takes special expertise to design them properly. Too, many engineers deal with gears so infrequently, ...