Hi-Tech Compressor and Pump Products, based in Tullytown, Pennsylvania, had just taken on a challenging compressor reconditioning project and was trying to sort out how to QC the alignment. Known for providing expert, responsive service, the company specializes in refurbishing reciprocating compressors and industrial pumps, and has a reputation for high quality work. Don Weidemann,…
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Putting aside conventional methods like optical theodolites and wire, a steadily growing number of sawmills are aligning their machinery with scanning lasers. These systems offer greater ease-of-use, higher accuracy and excellent repeatability over older methods and so-called “pointing” lasers, and can produce significant gains in recovery. Download Article
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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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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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The L-743 is just one of those alignment tools that can do alignment checks that practically no other tool can do. It has gotten us thrown out of many a demo because we showed the customer something he did not want to see! You can lead a horse to water….. However, having this awesome capability…
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I received a question from one of our distributors recently on what the “Best Fit Flatness TIR” numbers and “Slopes” mean in our report. So I thought this would be a good topic to discuss here. The best way to analyze flatness data is to use the Least-Squares, Best-Fit (Best Fit or BF) data algorithm,…
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