Re: [ATM] roller bearing vs Slider bearings

["Don Clement" <don_clement@charter.net>]

Gary,

Epoxy works well. see:
http://www.ellsworth.com/display/productlisting.html?ProductLineID=12&SubcategoryID=35&Tab=Products

-Don


> Hello Don,
>
> >>I prefer to use hardened stainless steel strip bonded to aluminum or MDF
backing.
>
>
> How do you bond the stainless to the aluminum or MDF?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gary Fuchs
>
>
>
>
> >Even hard-anodizing is only a few mils thick and does not always stand up
to
> >extreme stress of the line or point contact "singularity" of a roller
> >bearing. I prefer to use hardened stainless steel strip bonded to
aluminum
> >or MDF backing. Also "way" wipers are essential to keep dust and grit
from
> >beneath the stone crushing roller bearing wheels. One only has to look at
> >the tracks left from the "stone crushing" open roller bearing design on
the
> >popular crayford to see the effects of dust and grit contamination.
> >Hard-anodizing or hardened SS won't prevent an open, exposed roller
bearing
> >design from performance degradation due to dust and grit contamination.
> >
> >Don Clement
> >Running Springs, California
> >
> >
> >
> >Tony wrote:
> >I've had success combating the contact stress and galling issue by using
a
> >hard anodised surface on a hard temper (T6 or T9) alloy like 6061 or
6082.
> >It is important to control the load on the roller bearing to manage this
> >stress.
> >
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