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Hints & Tips For Longer Spindle Life
Spindle Contamination: Preventative Maintenance & When to Repair
Spindle contamination is a critical issue that can significantly impact the performance and longevity of your machinery. It’s important for machine operators to have a solid understanding of spindle contamination, preventative measures, and best practices for keeping equipment running smoothly and avoiding crashes.
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How to Recognize Bad Spindle Symptoms
It’s a fact of machining — eventually, even top-of-the-line turning machines will experience a spindle failure. Spindles endure tension, torsion, heavy loads, and speeds up to and beyond 150,000 RPM, to name a few of the standard stressors. Some amount of wear and maintenance is expected — but if a tell-tale sign of a bad spindle goes unnoticed for too long, a failure is probably imminent. While you can’t predict the unpredictable, you can take preventative measures to ensure your spindle has the longest life possible.
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Minimizing Spindle Downtime: Preventative Maintenance & More
Downtime is inevitable for any machine, but knowing how to reduce downtime or minimize its likelihood is critical. Since the spindle component of any machine experiences the most wear, any maintenance plan must address spindle health and downtime prevention. Preventative spindle maintenance and monitoring can increase productivity and profits, improve parts quality, reduce repair costs, and ensure operators’ safety.
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Spindle Noise: Potential Causes & Troubleshooting
One of the most valuable tools for identifying spindle issues is sound. Spindle assemblies vibrate naturally during operation, but excessive vibration that causes unusual noise is a sign that something could be wrong.
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What Is Spindle Bearing Preload and Why Is It Done?
In this helpful guide to spindle bearing preload, Northland Tool & Electronics will answer all the basic questions about your spindle bearing preload calculations. More importantly, we’ll discuss exactly why this is so crucial to the performance and longevity of your spindle. What Is Spindle Bearing Preload? First, let’s define preload. Preload is a predetermined static load that applies to all rolling components evenly. Specifically, bearing preload keeps the rolling elements in constant contact with the races to ensure that the dynamic loads, while in use, are exactly where they need to be to maximize accuracy and spindle life span.
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Spindle Parts & Accessories
Replacement parts are often necessary when repairing or rebuilding spindles. At Northland Tool & Electronics, all parts and accessories we order for our customers come from leading industry manufacturers. We can also service parts and accessories related to spindle motors and live tooling. Our team has substantial experience in assessing and addressing spindle part failures in a timely manner. Spindle Parts Repair Capabilities Our team of highly skilled technicians has the ability to repair, rebuild, and acquire necessary parts for hundreds of spindle brands and models on the market.
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Spindle Bearing Types: Roller, Angular, Radial & More
Spindles are the heart of each and every machine tool, from the aerospace industry to automotive and medical equipment manufacturing. They can come in a variety of different sizes and are capable of many different applications. Inside each spindle is a set of bearings that must hold very tight tolerances, withstand extreme conditions, and last for many years. As such, there are different types of bearings manufactured for very specific applications.
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