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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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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An alternative power source for most of our scanning and straight-line lasers Hamar Laser’s new M-124-LiPO Rechargeable 9V Battery Pack provides an alternate power source to our 9V A/C power supply. The rechargeable battery pack can be used to power most of our scanning and straight-line lasers. Powers all L-730/L-740 Series Scanning Lasers and the…
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The L-702/L-702SP are Class II diode lasers designed primarily for alignment of spindles to sub spindles or tailstocks. They have 2 axes of angular adjustment to align the laser beam to be co-linear the axis of rotation of a spindle in which the unit is mounted. The L-702 Spindle Laser comes in 2 configurations: L-702…
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Analyze and correct machine tool geometry errors – flatness, straightness, squareness and parallelism Hamar Laser’s Machine Tool Geometry Software is designed for machining center alignment. The program is used with our continuously rotating laser systems to measure and analyze the lines of motion of a machine’s main axes. Geometric errors, such as flatness, squareness, straightness and parallelism, are automatically downloaded…
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IMTS 2018 Booth Traffic Up 75%! Hamar Laser’s new spindle alignment lasers and record attendance helped us have one of our best shows in 10 years. Hamar Laser has been exhibiting at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) for many years and this year’s show was definitely one of our best…
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R-1356-2.4ZB with New Read15 Software Hand-held convenience, wireless communication via the ZigBee®Networking protocol, and multi- purpose Read15 alignment software A powerful, pocket-sized readout The R-1355-2.4ZB uses a rugged, IP 67 PDA combined with our Read15 software to display the data for our A-1519/A-1520 wireless targets and any of our L-730/740 Series rotating lasers. When combined…
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We are happy to announce that we have created a new website, https://shaftalignment.hamarlaser.com/, dedicated solely to our X Series™ shaft alignment products. We are also proud to announce that we are now offering a No-Worries, 5-Year Warranty for all Shaft Alignment products, which includes free loaners if there is a warranty issue. Our X-660 systems…
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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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