Re:Mod parent up (Score 1)

I've worked at a gear shop for the last 8 years doing mostly custom work and large production gears. The cost to do only a handful of gears is quite expensive. It really depends on what is needed to cut the gears you need. The cutting tools used can run well into the thousands of dollars depending on the job, so if its not something standard it going to cost quite a bit. Not to mention any set up time or any other required fixturing that will add to the price. After that initial cost then the per gear cost would be much lower but of course the company isn't going to eat that cost, you are. We've done jobs that were quite hard that required a lot of work but only had a few gears in them and they were literally thousands of dollars a piece. Then again we had 400K a year job that was a simple spur gear for .80 a piece. So you much better off finding gears already made and not going the custom route. Like some of the others said I would much rather rip something apart myself and I'm the guy that sets up and programs gear hobbing/grinding/shaping/rolling machines.