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The latest model ETP Shaft Locking Devices from Zero-Max work via a self-contained hydraulic system and provide more key benefits than traditional mechanical wedge-style shaft locking devices, ensuring high performance, accuracy, and durability in today’s motion systems. They provide far superior timing, synchronization and adjustability features. Here’s how: Precise Rotational and Linear Positioning Features of…

By Robert Davis, Senior Application Engineer — Bearings, Regal Rexnor Maintaining equipment integrity is crucial across a wide range of industries and manufacturing applications. It’s especially important to keep bearings in good working order, since they minimize friction between moving parts, allowing for smooth and efficient operation of machinery.     Maintaining equipment integrity is…

Emerson Bearing, a Boston, MA-based bearing company catering to niche markets nationwide and the sister company of Action Bearing which serves the New England market, unveils access to exclusive technical resources and solutions. Emerson Bearing provides more than 30 different resources covering bearing training and diagnostics, setup instructions for various bearing types, usage guides, and…

This is according to a European pump manufacturer, which used these bearings in centrifugal vertical pumps that transport vegetable oil at 110°C. These pumps, installed in food production facilities in Belgium and the Netherlands, are critical to the manufacturing process of frying potato chips. The client tested the pump for over a year and reported…

By Mary C. Gannon, Senior Editor igus Inc. exhibited at MinExpo this past September for the first time, using the event to promote its newer lines of heavy-duty bearings, for use in heavy equipment like excavators, cranes, and other machinery used in rugged environments. For example, the iglide TX1 heavy-duty bearing is rated for up…

Download the Nippon Bearing eBook NB’s standard TOPBALL® TW type is the forerunner of the TOPBALL Ultimate and it is available in a wide range of sizes. TOPBALL has 3 times the load capacity and 27 times more travel life than conventional bushings. Because it is self-aligning, it speeds manufacturing and assembly. It is a…

By Thomas Renner In today’s fast-paced manufacturing climate, businesses must react swiftly to quick-moving economic markets. Supply chain shortages and shipping delays forced the hand of many companies during the pandemic, driving innovation and identifying new pathways to adapt to the changing conditions. That’s where ergoline GmbH found itself with the production of its ergometers.…

Dura-Bar, continuous cast gray and ductile iron bar products, adds a tube portfolio with the launch of Dura-Tube. The new tube portfolio, produced utilizing either a proprietary continuous cast process or trepan process, is now available in a selection of sizes and grades. The flexibility to choose Dura-Tube provides customers with options to select tube…

This impeller lobe assembly will help food and beverage users speed through cleaning tasks. The ETP-CONNECT shaft connection is for pump drives with solid shafts. It simplifies the cleaning and maintenance of pumps, so it suits applications in pharmaceutical, chemical, and food and beverage processing systems where cleaning and maintenance must be done quickly and…

Keeping bar stock unmarked, holding a small diameter on center, holding a thin-wall part, ejecting parts and working with extruded bar shapes are common gripping dilemmas for the Swiss-turning industry. Hardinge offers a number of gripping devices for machining small diameter parts for medical component manufacturing. One category of products includes Swiss-type headstock collets, pickoff…

This heavy-duty plastic bushing can withstand radial loads up to 11,023 lb/in.2. These injection-molded self-lubricating and maintenance-free iglide® Q2 bushings are made from a new material blend. Initial testing has shown that they will perform up to five times better than any other plastic bearing material from this manufacturer when pivoting under the above radial…

With machine tools increasing the speed they can deliver, components must be able to transmit those higher torque forces. The ETP Express (Model R Stainless Steel) keyless shaft locking bushings are one component with the needed high torque transmission capacity. They are suitable for locking into position gears, pulleys, sprockets and other components in a…

J.W. Winco, Inc. now offers series GN 771.1 Locating Pins in metric sizes. These RoHS compliant components are normally used in conjunction with DIN 172 / DIN 179 drill bushings.   The tolerance of the pin diameter insures a perfect press fit into an H7 tolerance mounting bore, while the chamfer of the pin makes…

Heavy duty models of the ETP Express keyless shaft bushings are now available in 20, 40 and 60 mm sizes. Available from Zero-Max, ETP Express shaft locking bushings provide fast and frequent mounting/dismounting capabilities with only one radial screw. This saves space in a system and provides accurate mounting without axial movement of the ETP…

The C210 plastic bushing resists a range of acids, solvents and hydrogen peroxide, and can handle continuous temperatures of 212° F. It is also lubrication-free and corrosion-resistant. These features make it suitable for the aggressive, highly concentrated chemicals used in the food and packaging industries in order to meet high levels of hygiene and cleanliness.…

Misumi USA, Inc. announced the extension of its Linear Bushings “Pick2 FREE” special promotion through March 31st, 2012. The program is designed to highlight the company’s comprehensive selection of high quality, affordably priced Linear Bushings, which are available in a wide range of types and sizes. Under the terms of the special promotion, machine and…

Misumi USA, Inc. has announced the addition of a significant number of frequently ordered components to its distribution center in Elk Grove Village, IL, near Chicago. As the result of increasing demand for certain sizes and styles of many popular Misumi mechanical and factory automation components, more than 8,700 items have been added to the…

Graphite Metallizing Corporation has announced the availability of additional sizes of the GRAPHALLOY® 453 family of self-lubricating bushings. GRAPHALLOY® 453 Bushings are intended for use in severe industrial applications where temperatures reach 750‚°F (400‚°C) or higher. GRAPHALLOY® graphite/metal alloy bushings are designed to operate without lubrication. GRAPHALLOY® 453 Bushings have proven to be successful in…

Misumi USA, Inc. announces a free product offer to highlight its comprehensive array of high quality, affordably priced Linear Bushings. The “Pick2 FREE” special promotion offers machine and factory automation design engineers an opportunity to order two Linear Bushing samples, absolutely free. This is a limited time offer and selection is limited to certain sizes.…

Graphite Metallizing Corporation is pleased to announce a family of Tin Based Babbitt GRAPHALLOY® materials for high temperature bearing applications up to 350‚°F (175‚°C). These tin based babbit materials are available in NSF® certified grades for drinking water and are FDA accepted. They will perform reliably as self-lubricating bearings in submerged and dry applications. GRAPHALLOY®…

By Naoki Yamaguchi, Assistant Technical Manager, NB Corporation of America, Hanover Park, Ill. Reprint Info >> With an understanding of how to manipulate six factors, you can increase a ball spline bushing’s load capacity. Place a recirculating ball bushing on a shaft and what do you have; frictionless movement of the shaft. Create grooves along…

Plymouth, MN – ETP Shaft locking bushings from Zero-Max produce accurate and concentric mounting compared to mechanical shaft locking bushings. ETP bushings incorporate a double walled sleeve encapsulating a pressure medium. When the actuation screw is tightened it forces the inner and outer wall of the bushing to expand uniformly against the shaft and hub…

YONKERS, NY — Graphite Metallizing Corp. announces the 117 Series of GRAPHALLOY® bushings which deliver dependable performance in high temperature applications. GRAPHALLOY®, a graphite/metal alloy, is formed from molten metal, graphite and carbon. It is a uniform, solid, self-lubricating bushing and bearing material. The 117 Series excels in bakery ovens, heat treat furnaces, glass plants,…

The Thomson Selection Guide to Inch and Metric Linear Ball Bushing® Bearings, 60 Case‚ Shafting and RoundRail Linear Guides is now available. The guide contains helpful product overviews and comparisons, as well as all relevant product specifications and ordering information. This 250+ page resource guide also includes a content-rich engineering appendix to help the reader…

Tsubaki’s 7th generation of roller chain improvements offers upgraded performance and reliability through the new PerforMax™ bushing and increased horsepower ratings. The new PerforMax solid lube groove bushing improves upon all of the benefits of previous curled and solid bushings. Lube grooves, heat treatment, plus incredibly precise dimensions produce a solid bushing worthy to be…