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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Well now, things are a changing here in our laser alignment world. First I see that Acoem has acquired Fixturlaser, one of our biggest competitors. I wonder what this will mean for all those current Fixturlaser distributors as well as the employees. Change is always difficult. I am sure for those FL distributors who have…
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I haven’t yet posted on our very powerful and accurate shaft alignment lasers, called the X Series™, so I thought I would mention a few things about the Shaft Alignment lasers. Making Shaft Alignment Lasers for 22 Years We’ve been making shaft alignment lasers for over 22 years but have focused a big majority of…
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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 recently received a question from one of my distributors regarding the stability spec of our bore alignment lasers. The distributor said that their customer complained that the angular stability we specified for the L-708 is too high to make the laser useable at 30 meters. So I had to set him straight on just…
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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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We have been selling auto-rotating laser planes for over 25 years with accuracies down to 0.5 arc secs (.00003”/ft) and we pride ourselves in publishing the complete accuracy specs of our laser planes. I mention this because in our battles with our competition, we have noticed that not all of our competitors agree with this…
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Welcome to our Blog! My father, Martin Hamar, started the laser alignment industry in 1967 and in all the years since then, he and the rest of us at Hamar have accumulated a wealth of laser alignment experience on almost any application you can imagine. Along the way, we have made our share of mistakes…
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