Maybe someone has some experience with something like this. I have a mild steel strip, .50 inches wide, .10 thick, with a thin PTFE material bonded to one side. This strip is pulled through two - three tooth broach cutters that trim a few thousandths off each side to width. The pulling is...
My electrical supply couldn't come up with anything on this one. I found a 24V DC brushless, 100-2500 RPM, 1/25 HP, 15:1 gearmotor from Oriental. The great thing about it is the 20 mm distance of the output shaft centerline to the edge of the gearmotor. I'm trying to do away with a belt...
I am looking for a source for extra precision ABEC-3, extra light single row ball bearings, specifically the equivalent of Fafnir M9102K. These bearings are available in angular contact, but I cannot use those. Distributors and Timken (which acquired Fafnir) have told me the M type is no...
Back in the 1970's when I first encountered Lexan polycarbonate, we used a lot of 1/8", 1/4" and 3/8" sheet to make machine guarding and enclosures. It was trmendously expensive then, but as I recall, virtually indestructable. We drilled, tapped, sawed, bent, heated, you name it, and I can't...
I am looking for a cycle or hit counter to attach to forming dies. This counter would ideally be solid state, watch battery powered or maybe even unpowered, able to fit in a small space of a two inch cube or so, bulletproof, attachable with a couple of socket head screws and would count...
