motion of gear relative to “rack” is correct. Another method, the Nile approach, uses a wheel which is formed to give the “theoretical mating rack” instead of using two cup wheels as in the Maag method. This approach is best suited to medium precision work on smaller gears and is intermediate in speed between the Reishauer and Maag methods. All grinding processes are slow and costly compared with cutting processed and so are only used when accuracy is essential. A rough rule of thumb is that grinding will increase gear cutting costs by a factor of 10 but the cost of the teeth is often only a small part of the total cost of a gearbox. The accuracies attainable are surprisingly not very dependent on size of gear ; whether a gear is 5 m or 50 m diameter the pitch involute and helix accuracies attainable are of the order of 5 microns or better and more dependent on the skill and patience of the operator and inspectors than on any other factors. It is often assumed that grinding will remove all error generated at the roughing stage. Unfortunately, grinding machines are relatively flexible and so the grinding wheel has a tendency to follow previous errors. The errors will thus be reduced but not completely eliminated unless very many cuts are used; whenever a grinding process is giving in consistent results it is advisable to check the accuracies at the rough-cut stage. The only exception is the form grinding process which will not follow involute errors though it will still allow helix and pitch errors. 9

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