Gear Headquarters

GEARS

SERVICES

Gear Headquarters manufactures spur, helical, double-helical, herringbone, bevel, internal and spline types of gears. We also produce worm and worm gears, sprockets and timing belt pulleys.

Gear Headquarters works with both Imperial and Metric tooling and specification measurements, as well as a wide variety of materials such as carbon and alloy steels, stainless steel, tool steel, aluminum, many types of bronze, cast iron, plastic and phenolic.

MACHINING

SERVICES

Gear Headquarters has a full-service machine shop that offers a variety of capabilities which include manual and CNC turning and milling, grinding, broaching and slotting. Our CNC department features all Mazak lathes and a Mazak mill.

GEAR BOX REPAIR

SERVICES

Our team has decades of combined experience in the repairing, rebuilding, and fabricating of gear reducers and gearboxes. We can repair or rebuild any brand, or fabricate brand new units to fit your current gearbox reducer footprint.

Gear Headquarters is proud to be Timken Certified Platinum as part of our commitment to continuous education and improvement. Through our ongoing relationship with Timken, and their certification training and audit process, we are better able to inspect and determine the condition of bearings in a customer’s gearbox and ensure the proper handling and installation in our customers’ repairs.

Some of the brands we have repaired or rebuilt:
Cone Drive Falk Rexnord Link-Belt Foote-Jones Sumitomo Amarillo Lightenin Browning David Brown Cleveland Horsburgh & Scott Philadelphia Nord Grove Winsmith

REVERSE ENGINEERING

SERVICES

Not everybody does it. That’s because it’s hard, it can be very time-consuming, and in many cases, you are working from a virtually destroyed sample. And these are often business-critical parts that need to get back up and running in a hurry.

At Gear Headquarters, we love the challenge of figuring out how something was made, then taking it a step further by making it a little better, faster, or more economical. Our expert team stays up-to-date on the most current technologies and trends with continuous learning, training, exploring and networking. We use a Faro Arm scan arm that adds cutting-edge technology to our metrology department for use in both daily inspection and reverse engineering. The portability of the Faro Arm also allows us to perform part or gearbox inspection or identification onsite at the customer’s location.

Our top priority is our relationship with our customers, and nothing makes us happier than helping someone get their machine, production line, or full operation back up and running quickly!

Our Services

Our Capacities

Type	Pitch Diameter (PD) Range	Diametral Pitch (DP) Range
Spur Gears	1″ PD to 120″ PD	24 DP to 1 DP
Helical Gears	1″ PD to 80″ PD	24 DP to 1 DP
Bevel Gears	1″ PD to 48″ PD	24 DP to 1 DP
Herringbone Gears	1″ PD to 60″ PD	16 DP to 1.25 DP
Worm Gears	1″ PD to 72″ PD	48 DP to 2.5 DP
Internal Gears	Up to 36″ PD	48 DP to 3 DP

About Us

Gear Headquarters Is A Full-Service Gear Manufacturer, Machine Shop And Gear Reducer Repair Shop. We Take Pride In Our Quality Workmanship, Reverse Engineering Capabilities And Our Rush-Breakdown Services.

For over a century, we have specialized in made-to-order gears and machined products. Started in 1900 as Crago Gear & Machine Works, Gear Headquarters was purchased by Headco Industries and renamed in 1979. Located in Kansas City, KS, Gear Headquarters has a long, proven legacy of providing machining and gear manufacturing services to customers in a wide-range of industries, such as steel, mining, tire, food processing, chemical, power generation, agriculture, pharmaceutical, railroad and gas and oil.

We are experts in gear reducer repair, having experience with gearboxes from a few pounds to over 20,000 lbs. Gear Headquarters also has many Original Equipment Manufacturer customers and can handle orders with quantities of 1 or 2 pieces up to small production-run type orders. Our team can work with you from prints, sketches or samples. Just send us some details using our contact form and we will get back to you to discuss your needs in more depth.