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Plastic bearing with reflective coating grooves possible??

Thread starter yutaini
Start date Mar 29, 2001

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Mar 29, 2001

yutaini

Mechanical

Hi, i'm doing a project on water lubricated journal bearing. Now having problem measuring the gap (distance between the shaft and bearing). I'm currently looking at using eddy current displacenment sensor mounted in the rotating shaft but it need a reflective (metal) coating in order to operate. So is there a way to coat a thin layer of metal strip(in micron) where the sensor is going to roatate??? Thanks for your guildance.

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Yutaini