If you can find them at a reasonable price (ebay?) The stainless steel bellows type couplings are very good even in high torque applications.
The price is right! http://store.reuseum.com/Gerwah_AKD30_20mm_Bellows_Coupling_Motor_Coupler_p/000011213016B13Store.htm?gclid=CN2uyZ6VtrUCFYs7MgodIQUAEQ Dave On 2/14/2013 9:33 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > Helical beam are great for lower tourque aplications. But I was having > problems breaking them, and oldhams wear out much to quickly. I havn't had a > flexible ss disk style fail on me (yet) but I have only been using them for > about a year on the machine that was giving me problems breaking the helical > beams. All of our realy big routers used the flexible steel disk type or > something simular OE. > > ----- Original Message ----- > On 13.02.13 16:17, Pete Matos wrote: > >> I have actually looked at Mcmaster carr as I usually do but did not see >> what I needed. I actually like the looks of those cut bodied couplers but >> I am not too sure of their misalignment ability. A quality oldham in the >> right size should work fine I think....peace >> > I've never done any measurements, but figure that the "helical beam", or > whatever you want to call them, couplings ought to have the lowest > backlash. An Oldham coupling must wear out, Shirley? > > Erik > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
