Posts Categorized: Alignment


HLI in the News

Targeting Spindle Alignment for High Machining Accuracy This 5-axis laser target for spindle and axis alignment offers a fast and highly accurate way to measure spindle alignment, axis straightness and squareness on lathes, multitasking machines, machining centers and ID/OD grinding machines. Read Article: Targeting Spindle Alignment for High Machining Accuracy | Production Machining

Hamar Laser Introduces “Build Your Own™” for our X-Series™ Shaft Alignment Systems

Our renowned Stealth Series™ line of shaft systems has been rebranded the X-Series™ Hamar Laser proudly introduces Build Your Own™ (BYO), a new way of purchasing shaft alignment lasers which gives our customers the ability to customize shaft alignment kits to better fit their needs. We even added some new geometry Apps and fixtures so…
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Modern Roll Alignment Techniques – Which is Best?

Making sense of your roll alignment options As someone tasked with looking after roll machinery you understand that proper alignment is vital to keeping your equipment operating efficiently and productively. Today, however, you are faced with choosing from among a sometimes confusing array of alignment technologies. In this complex marketplace, choosing the best solution for…
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Tired of Worrying about Coupling Backlash?

Earlier this summer, I was training one of our new distributors from Central America and we started discussing Fixturlasers since they were a former reseller of those lasers. I was asking them how their system works and what they did for demos. I was pretty amazed to find Fixturlaser’s “rules for demos”: Don’t set the…
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Don’t Worry about Shaft Applications where Shafts Are Hard to Stop Rotating

Came across this application from our distributor in Costa Rica. Here is a large gearbox where the shafts are hard to stop rotating. Due to this problem, the customer wanted to do the alignment without rotating the shafts, but we suggested they can rotate the shafts by using the X-880 and Auto Sweep™ instead!  How…
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