Spur, helical, internal and crown gears, splined shafts and complete CNC machining, made exactly to your engineered drawing. Prototype, runoff and medium production under one Rockford roof.
Most gear work stays inside our building, so we control quality and delivery. Send blanks for hob only, shape only or grind only, or let us make the part complete.
01Three full axis CNC Hofler grinders handle practically any tooth profile, including crown, taper and tip relief, for smooth, quiet running gears.
02Mitsubishi GD50 and GD30 CNC hobbers with high accuracy worm table designs, plus NC hobbers and a wide library of tooling.
03A Mitsubishi CNC shaper cuts internal and external helicals without a helical guide, so changeovers are short. Manual Fellows shapers back it up.
04CNC Daewoo Puma and Mazak lathes, Haas VF-2 and VF-3 mills, Heald ID and Toyoda CNC OD grinders and a Mitsubishi wire EDM with gear software.
Hofler Helix 700 CNC gear grinder. Several experienced operators run the grinders around the clock for quick turnaround.
Lead, profile and pitch diameter runout are checked on analytical gear inspection equipment. Complete inspection reports and gear charts go out with every shipping part.
Also on the floor: Hofler 400 mm analytical gear analyzer and a Brown & Sharpe CMM. The ISO 9001:2015 system runs on QT-9 quality software, and JobBoss controls routing so repeat jobs repeat exactly.
Fine and medium pitch, prototypes and medium production runs, for printing press, mining, agricultural, automotive, aerospace and other industrial machinery.
Prototype of five pieces, a 1,000 piece runoff or 15,000 to 20,000 EAU. Same shop, same people, straight through.
Email a PDF or TIFF of each part. CAD files welcome.
Complete part, or hob, shape or grind only on your blanks.
Parts ship with inspection reports, gear charts and certs.
Raycar opened as a Rockford machining job shop in 1989. Early employees knew gears, so gear equipment came in, and gears became the specialty.
Opens in Rockford as a machining job shop.
CNC Daewoo lathes and Haas mills; first CNC gear grinder.
Reishauer replaced by a CNC Hofler Helix 400, then a Helix 700.
Third Hofler, the Helix 400KK, and a Mitsubishi CNC hobber.
Mitsubishi CNC shaper, second CNC hobber, another lathe.
Moves into 30,000+ sq ft on 11th Street.
Our three CNC Hofler gear grinders consistently achieve and often exceed AGMA Class 12. Hobbed gears are held to AGMA Class 9. Gear charts ship with every part.
Grinding up to about 27.8" diameter, hobbing up to about 20" diameter and shafts about 30" long, CNC shaping to 15.75" external and 9.84" internal, and turning up to 23" diameter and 50" long.
Yes. From a five piece prototype, to a 1,000 piece runoff, to lower production around 15,000 to 20,000 EAU.
Yes. Send your blanks for hobbing only, shaping only or gear grinding only, or we make the part complete. We are happy to quote both ways.
Email sales@raycargear.com with a PDF or TIFF of your part drawing, or call 815-874-3948.
Yes, ISO 9001:2015. We provide material and process certifications for any items we manufacture.
We invite you to tour our facility and talk to our staff about your gear needs.