Happy Thanksgiving! Our company will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, as we give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives. Among those blessings are our customers, and we thank you for doing business with us! We will be closed Thursday the 23rd and Friday the 24th in honor of the holiday. We will be back in the office and ready for business on Monday the 27th. Happy Thanksgiving! We hope to work with you again soon. Your friends at DieQua Corporation.
The tried and true method of synchronizing the speed of multiple stations by linking them mechanically through a gearbox system remains a popular option in machine design. This is still seen in printing presses, conveyors, roll forming and packaging lines, just to name a few examples. A customer of ours recently requested some assistance in designing a conveyor and feed system for a large pipe cutting operation. The long, heavy pipe was to be loaded on a set of rollers that would then move the pipe into a cutting house where it would be sawed [...]
Gearbox seal leaks are the bane of gearbox users. Since lubrication is the lifeblood of enclosed drives, maintaining oil levels is critical to long life. When oil starts leaking, corrective action is necessary, but what action? What’s going wrong? Actually, the answers can be varied as the gear type used, how it’s mounted, the speed it’s running, and the environment it’s in. We had a user of a competitive worm gear speed reducer give us a call. He had his gearbox mounted with the output shaft horizontal and his quill-mounted motor pointing vertically, below [...]
Screw jacks are just one member of the linear motion family, more suitable for relatively low-duty cycles. A customer had a problem we had to troubleshoot that highlighted what not to do. There are two common types of screw jacks. The first type of screw jack is the ball screw jack. They have recirculating balls in the threads that reduce friction, allowing for higher-duty cycles than the other type. The second type is the machine, or acme thread, screw jack that has a sliding action similar to a nut and bolt. This limits [...]