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Top 5 Causes of Backlash, Plus a Caveat –
Perceived backlash in a Spiroid gear set or gear box can usually be narrowed down to a handful of causes. The following list represents the top 5 most common causes of perceived backlash in Spiroid's right angle gear sets [...]
A Quick Nod to Oliver Saari, Godfather of Spiroid
For over 50 years now, the Spiroid family of gears have been serving a myriad of industries and applications. And while the pace of technological change has caused some technologies to fade away in the face of new innovation, Spiroid's [...]
Spiroid As SME: The Top 10 Benefits Our Team Brings To The Table
Over countless applications and almost 60 years of design and manufacturing experience, our team at Spiroid has built up quite a repository of knowledge on the subject of high torque, right angle gear reducers. The following is a list of [...]
Back Driving with Spiroid and Helicon Skew Axis Gearing
We often get questions surrounding Spiroid's ability to 'backdrive'. While there was a time when we'd respond to such questions with generalizations about reduction ranges and the 'backdriveability' of each range, we've learned over the years that it is wiser [...]
Welcome to ‘The Right Angle’
Spiroid’s mission is to assure the best possible service and value to our customers by building partnerships and promoting teamwork. We believe we can further that mission by sharing our thoughts, experience, and expertise within the framework of this blog. There [...]