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Boston Gear is a leading manufacturer of quality power transmission products, specializing in gears, clutches, brakes, and couplings. Founded in 1877, Boston Gear has been providing innovative solutions to meet the demanding needs of customers across a broad range of industries.

Boston Gear's gear products are designed to meet the needs of industrial applications in diverse industries such as food and beverage, material handling, agriculture, construction, and mining. Their product line includes precision gears, industrial gears, and worm gears, among others. These gears are made from high-quality materials and manufactured to strict standards to ensure reliability, durability, and consistent performance in harsh environments.

Boston Gear's expertise in gear manufacturing is backed by a team of experienced engineers and technicians who work closely with customers to provide tailored solutions that meet their unique requirements. Boston Gear also offers custom gear manufacturing services, including gear design, engineering, and prototyping, to help customers get the exact gear they need.

In addition to gear products, Boston Gear provides comprehensive service capabilities, including repair, maintenance, and replacement services. Their team of skilled technicians can repair and rebuild gearboxes, clutches, brakes, and couplings, extending the life of existing equipment and reducing downtime. Boston Gear also offers replacement parts for their products, ensuring that customers have access to the components they need to keep their equipment running smoothly.

Boston Gear's commitment to quality and customer satisfaction has earned them a reputation as a trusted partner in the power transmission industry. Their products and services are used by customers around the world, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, and they continue to innovate and expand their product offerings to meet the evolving needs of their customers.

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Bevel Gears

Bevel Gears

A bevel gear is a toothed rotating machine element used to transfer mechanical energy or shaft power between shafts that are intersecting, either perpendicular or at an angle. This results in a change in the axis of rotation of the shaft power...

Helical Gears

Helical Gears

A gear is a particular kind of simple machine that controls the strength or direction of a force. A gear train is made up of multiple gears that are combined and connected by their teeth. These gear trains allow energy to move from...

Planetary Gears

Planetary Gear System

A planetary gear is an epicyclic gear that consists of a central gear, referred to as the sun gear and serves as the input gear, which has three or more gears that rotate around it that are referred to as planets. The planet gears engage with a ring gear that encircles the sun...

Plastic Gears

Plastic Gears

A plastic gear is a toothed wheel made up of engineering plastic materials that work with others to alter the relation between the speed of an engine and the speed of the driven parts. The engineering plastic materials used in manufacturing plastic gears can be...

Spur Gears

Spur Gears

A spur gear is a cylindrical toothed gear with teeth that are parallel to the shaft and is used to transfer mechanical motion and control speed, power, and torque between shafts. They are the most popular types of cylindrical gears and...

Worm Gears

Worm Gears

A worm gear is a staggered shaft gear that creates motion between shafts using threads that are cut into a cylindrical bar to provide speed reduction. The combination of a worm wheel and worm are the components of a worm gear...

Types of Gears

Types of Gears

A rotary circular machine with a tooth in its structure and is used to transfer torque and speed from one shaft to another is called a gear. Gears are also known as cogs and have cut teeth in the cogwheel or gear wheel...

Ball Screws

Ball Screw Animation

Ball screws are mechanical linear actuators that consist of a screw shaft and a nut that contain a ball that rolls between their matching helical grooves. The primary function of ball screws is to convert rotational motion to linear motion...

Lead Screw

Lead Screws

A lead screw is a kind of mechanical linear actuator that converts rotational motion into linear motion. Its operation relies on the sliding of the screw shaft and the nut threads with no ball bearings between them...

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