Getting Up On the Wrong Side of the Bed

The name John Madden may be familiar if you follow professional football. He was the long-time commentator on Monday Night Football (now Sunday nights) who traveled everywhere by bus. The rumor was he was afraid of flying. No, this is not an article about John Madden. But it is an article about a bus. Mr. Madden is not the only one that rides in modified tour buses. Band crews, racing crews, and a variety of other groups that travel a circuit use modified buses to provide comfort and cost-effective movement from city to city. [...]

By |2023-06-21T12:51:30-05:00September 24th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off on Getting Up On the Wrong Side of the Bed

Spinea Cycloidal Units

The benefits of zero backlash, high torsional rigidity, high tilting capacity, and compact size enable most industrial robots to perform precise pick-and-place tasks. But it isn’t just robots that need these benefits. Devices as large as machine tools and as small as optical systems need the features that both flex spline and cycloidal gear designs offer in one way or another. While there are a couple of significant players supplying these types of drives, Spinea’s unique cycloidal gear design provides distinct advantages over the competition. For one, the torque density is unmatched providing more [...]

By |2024-05-24T23:55:45-05:00September 19th, 2017|Application Examples, Product Focus|Comments Off on Spinea Cycloidal Units

DieQua Gearbox Maintenance Tips

Gearbox Maintenance Tips and Mistakes to Avoid DieQua offers tips for installing, operating, and maintaining gearboxes. Below, we discuss common gearbox maintenance mistakes and how to avoid them. Specifically, our tips include both the error and the preventative measures in each of these scenarios so you can best learn how to maintain a gearbox. Tip 7 - Correctly Mount Servo Gearhead It is incorrect to mount a gearhead horizontally, as it allows for the increasing of some loads associated. This horizontal orientation causes lateral misalignment which shortens [...]

By |2024-10-11T22:29:11-05:00September 15th, 2017|Educational|Comments Off on DieQua Gearbox Maintenance Tips

Screw Jack Installation: Troubleshooting Alignment Problems

Screw jacks are just one member of the linear motion family, more suitable for relatively low duty cycles. A customer had a noise and wear problem we had to troubleshoot. It highlighted what not to do. There are two common types of screw jacks. Ball screw jacks have recirculating balls in the threads that reduce friction, and machine, or acme thread, screwjacks have a sliding action similar to a nut and bolt. Ball screws allow more duty cycles, and machine screws allow less. Within these screw jack types, there are two versions. What we [...]

By |2023-10-18T19:40:54-05:00September 14th, 2017|Application Examples, Product Focus|Comments Off on Screw Jack Installation: Troubleshooting Alignment Problems