A Capable Bronze Gear Blanks Manufacturer
High-quality bronze helps prevent gear failure in heavy-duty applications. At Fisher Barton, we offer precision-engineered solutions through our Accurate Specialties division. We’re a premier partner for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) requiring reliable, cost-optimized gear blanks. Our expertise covers various types of blanks in a range of specifications to serve industries ranging from agriculture to energy.
Advanced Bronze Gear Blank Casting Capabilities
Accurate Specialties serves as a bronze gear blank OEM supplier through our Turning Center of Excellence. In this facility, we can produce bronze gear blanks with various casting methods to tailor performance and costs to your requirements.
Composite Gear Blanks
Our composite gear blanks have a bronze gear-tooth portion and use alternate metals, such as steel and cast iron, for the center hub. This bimetal construction helps save on costs by using less expensive metals for the hub. Meanwhile, these components offer excellent quality because the bronze shrinks more during cooling, creating a strong bond with the hub material. Bronze gear blanks also eliminate the need for spacers, reducing material and assembly costs.
We can manufacture bimetal bronze gear blanks in various sizes and configurations to meet your application requirements.
Products By Application
Agriculture: Smart Seed Planting
Food Processing: Cured Meat Slicing
Motion Control: Worm Drive Gearbox
Centrifugal Cast Bronze Blanks
The high-velocity spinning process used in centrifugal cast bronze blanks forces all impurities to the center, which are then machined away. At Accurate Specialties, we create solid bronze blanks utilizing this process for uniformity throughout the piece. These gear blanks are the strongest around the outer edge, enabling the gear teeth to hold up to high levels of strain, shear stress, and overload.
We can make blanks using standard 907 bronze or other alloys you request. Our capabilities enable us to produce diameters ranging from 2 to 50 inches and weights up to 5,000 pounds.
Products By Application
Energy: Fracking Equipment
Continuous Cast Bar Blanks
If you have a simple, low-feature gear blank design, you may benefit from continuous cast bar blanks. We offer high-speed in-house production by cutting bars into pucks, then lathe-turning them into gear blanks or shafts. This casting option works well for high-volume operations and just-in-time turnarounds. While these parts are faster to produce, they also retain favorable mechanical properties, including friction, wear, and machinability.
Products By Application
Solar: Clutch Worm Gear Blank
Engineered Industrial Brakes
Our expertise with bronze alloys and high-precision manufacturing enables us to extend our capabilities beyond bronze blanks into products such as tension brakes, composite brake rotors, and industrial brake and clutch assemblies.
Our composite brake rotors offer similar cost-reduction advantages to composite gear blanks. The aluminum base is also lightweight and dissipates heat effectively. We can also manufacture friction brake pads optimized for reduced wear and longer component lifespans, even in high-temperature environments.
Products By Application
Motion Control: Line Stringing Tension Brakes
Streamlining Your Production
We offer ready-to-hob delivery for all our gear blanks. Our preparation includes turning, facing, and boring to create a blank that is ready for gear teeth. We ensure that parts are at their final outside diameter and finish them to the desired width. An in-house inspection confirms details such as tolerances, concentricity, and perpendicularity. We utilize coordinate measuring machines to make exact measurements.
Our ready-to-hob delivery can help reduce your production lead times and lower your in-house costs. By handling everything in one place, we also simplify your supply chain, giving you one partner who carries you from raw materials to finished blanks.
Material Verification and Quality
You can rely on us to deliver the level of quality you require for your bronze gear blanks. A few of the benefits we offer include:
- Material selection: We work with standard bronze alloys, such as 907 and 905. If you need custom solutions with specific material properties, such as particular friction coefficients, we can work with you to meet those needs.
- Compliance: The quality systems we use align with ISO 9001:2015. Our Turning Center of Excellence also complies with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls regarding the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
- Lab testing: We don’t just create metal parts — we utilize material science to deliver the innovative solutions you need. Within our Technology Center, we have numerous experts who can prototype and field-test products to ensure they perform as required in your application.
A Supportive Partner
Beyond the materials we use and parts we produce, we uphold a high level of quality throughout our operations. We prioritize on-time delivery to keep your operations running smoothly. Our team also provides reliable customer support, collaborating with you from your initial inquiry through the finished product and beyond. Customer Focus Work Teams include experts from across our departments who combine their knowledge to develop strong relationships with you by listening to your needs and continually working to exceed your expectations.
Industries Powered by Our Gear Blanks
Our ability to customize gear blank sizes, materials, casting processes, and other details enables us to create solutions that serve various industries, including:
- Agriculture: Bronze gear blanks work well in high-wear applications such as harvesting and planting equipment. One application we have served is bronze worm gears, which are an ideal solution for irrigation system equipment. We can also manufacture gear blanks for applications like manure spreaders.
- Energy: Within the renewable energy sector, we manufacture exceptionally strong and durable bronze gear blanks used in tracking assemblies on solar panels. These blanks can also serve in control mechanisms or gearboxes used for other energy applications.
- Food processing: Our gear blanks can help drive conveyors and keep your processing moving. We can use corrosion-resistant alloys meant for sanitary environments, such as in cured meat slicing.
- Motion control: Gearboxes drive a wide range of machinery, from winches to earth movers. At Fisher Barton, we can produce high-quality bronze gear blanks for even the most demanding applications. Bronze offers the ideal friction material for various applications, like gearbox worm drives.
- Construction: In this industry, our bronze gear blanks often serve in equipment drivetrain components. We can manufacture to your exact requirements, producing even large blanks for the biggest vehicle types. Our careful material selection and construction offer reliable performance.
- Oil and gas: Our bronze gear blanks can serve various areas of the oil and gas industry, from fracking to the oil patch. They can help extract oil from wells or raise and lower drilling platforms, among many other use cases.
Request a Quote for Custom Bronze Gear Blanks
Start a conversation with us about your specific project needs. We can provide a quote and deliver engineering support to help select ideal materials and casting methods for your application and budget. Reach out to discuss your needs with us or jump-start the process with a quote. You can also call 920-390-4760 to speak with our team.
