Gears ? For towing

[ShadowsPapa]

I'm working today but I'll post it later this evening.

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[CrazyCooter]

With this entitled generation coming up right now and a super cool generation fading out.......retirement cannot get here fast enough!

 

[IamPro2A]

Officially, I retire in a few days at the end of the year. Unofficially, I retired almost a week ago. Burning some leftover vacation days until my retirement date.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Officially, I retire in a few days at the end of the year. Unofficially, I retired almost a week ago. Burning some leftover vacation days until my retirement date.

My wife kept a spreadsheet on her computer that tracked our vacation time, sick leave time, and time to retirement. We could carry over so much vacation and sick leave, the rest we lost. So she made sure we "used it, not lost it".
I gave the state back .1 hours of vacation and was maxed out perfectly on sick leave when I retired.
I got paid for my unused vacation and my unused sick leave was converted to a dollar amount and that amount was applied to monthly health insurance payments until I turned 65. I paid 20/month for the first couple of years or so, then 40/month for health insurance until I turned 65. When I turned 65 there was enough money left to cover about 2 1/2 months of insurance. The state got that back.
My wife retired first - she was maxed out in IPERS and working longer wouldn't have increased her monthly retirement benefits anyway, so since she was well past their rule of 88, she retired 2 years before me. Sadly, she'd converted a lot of sick leave to vacation years prior so didn't have a lot of sick leave saved up at retirement.
It'll be 6 years for me come March 30, 2023
I was one of the last people left in our agency's IT department. There was the IT supervisor, 1 person left of 2 help desk people, and 3 developers left working on their client tracking database app.
Bernie, the network admin responsible for all remote off connectivity and all servers retired 2 or 3 years before me - I took over all of his duties plus kept all of my security and other duties. Prior to Bernie leaving, the women who did the documentation and was responsible for backups, all software updates and configuration, Active Directory and so on left due to health reasons, and I had taken all of her responsibilities over but found ways to automate and improve almost everything she did so in the end, what she had done only took me 3 or 4 hours a week to deal with. (I did a lot more in less time and more efficiently)
When I left, Iowa's central IT was already taking things over as "cost cutting" (what a hoot). So my last days were spent documenting everything, passing all of the Cisco and Juniper stuff over to them, making VPN almost self-supporting, and moving the VMs (servers) over to them.
Boss said they'd have gladly taken me in over there had I wanted to stay - they had even talked to him about moving me over to their teams, but no. Not for me.
Retired and happy.

 

[Lunentucker]

Today was last day.
I fired myself.

 

[Lunentucker]

Do you have a link to the video?

The whole video is very interesting but the gear bit starts around the 20 minute mark.

 

[Lunentucker]

Retirement: Today was handoff day. Me introducing my 20 or so primary customers to the people who are taking over the accounts, if the customers want them.
My deal is 30% for 3 years of whatever they get from the handoffs.
Small business IT.

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

The whole video is very interested but the gear bit starts around the 20 minute mark.

The gear strength subject always interests me. There's just not much info out there.

It seems like Rory Irish is speculating in that video.

The guys at True Hi9 had this info below posted on their website. It's now removed though and I'm not sure why. Could be it was not accurate. But it does show the D60 5.13 ratio is stronger than the D60 4.88 ratio which contradicts the lower ratios are weaker theory you often hear.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Today was last day.
I fired myself.

Where's that applause "like" button?

 

[Lunentucker]

I believe Rory was also saying that it was an optimal combination of tooth size and pinion/ring overall size.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The gear strength subject always interests me. There's just not much info out there.

It seems like Rory Irish is speculating in that video.

The guys at True Hi9 had this info below posted on their website. It's now removed though and I'm not sure why. Could be it was not accurate. But it does show the D60 5.13 ratio is stronger than the D60 4.88 ratio which contradicts the lower ratios are weaker theory you often hear.

It could be related to my comments on the Ford gears. Not only the ratio, but the cut of the ring gears matters.
But you get into tiny pinions and you just can't mesh as much material.
That chart is only ring gears, ignoring the pinion.

 

[ttn333]

Today was last day.
I fired myself.

Lucky you. I'm dreaming about that day... one day. Self employed just mean you work harder and longer.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I believe Rory was also saying that it was an optimal combination of tooth size and pinion/ring overall size.

Hypoid gears are extremely complex beasts. It's not just a matter of one thing.
Too many talk of ring gears, pinion SIZE, and so on. I've not watched the video - and don't know the guy from adam, but he could be considering things many don't for all I know.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Lucky you. I'm dreaming about that day... one day. Self employed just mean you work harder and longer.

And retired is - well, think of the meaning of the prefix "re" and go from there.

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

It could be related to my comments on the Ford gears. Not only the ratio, but the cut of the ring gears matters.
But you get into tiny pinions and you just can't mesh as much material.
That chart is only ring gears, ignoring the pinion.

I didn’t realize that was just ring gear figures, thanks for pointing that out. There’s not enough data there with the pinion missing.

They go on to show the Ford 9” pinion vs the D60 pinion to demonstrate the how the cut comes into play. It’d be great if we could see the tooth contact surface area for various ratios, but they don’t get specific about that.

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