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An Easy Way To Address Misalignment for High-Load Applications

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When you need a linear guide to handle high load misalignment in demanding applications, you might think your only option is a heavy-duty profiled guide with its associated alignment challenges.

However, this traditional solution often comes with its own set of misalignment issues, potentially complicating your heavy-load movement requirements.

Higher load requirements often mean the more compliant guides that find good use in medium-precision applications are off-limits.

Instead, to meet both the load criteria and address misalignment, you typically have to choose a larger profiled guide and perform costly and time-consuming tasks during installation.

Those tasks can include grinding and machining the mounting surfaces, creating custom fixtures and adjusting bolts and shims to reach the proper tolerances when a simpler installation could get you up and running.

A new generation of linear guide products includes a self aligning bearing that can make this expensive, tedious work a thing of the past. With Rollon’s Compact Rail Plus, designers can choose a rugged and strong motion guide that also has the self-aligning features typically found in guides for medium-precision applications.

This innovative design effectively addresses bearing misalignment issues, providing a solution that combines precision with adaptability in various industrial settings.

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Compact Rail Plus is designed for demanding applications such as those involving heavy loads, high speeds, fast accelerations or harsh operating environments.

Construction features include double-row ball bearings for greater load capacity in both radial and axial directions, new rails with convex raceways for added rigidity and robust steel sliders with longitudinal seals to protect internal components from dirt and contaminants.

Induction-hardened raceways in select models ensure quiet operation and a long lifetime, and different surface treatments are available to resist corrosion.

To learn more about Compact Rail Plus, watch the dedicated webinar

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Even with all these robust features, this compliant guide can align itself to less-than-perfect mounting surfaces.

And when two rails are combined with different sliders, you can create a self-aligning system that can compensate for linear misalignment and other alignment errors on two planes: axial up to 3.5 millimeters and radial up to ±1.3 degrees.

This design effectively addresses issues of linear misalignment, providing a versatile solution for various precision engineering applications.

These features and capabilities will allow you to:

  • Choose the best structure according to your accuracy requirements.
  • Easily mount the linear guide on non-machined structures.
  • Reduce total assembly time.
  • Deploy the guide in harsh environments.
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In addition to high load bearing capacity and self-alignment capabilities, Compact Rail Plus also features:

  • A C-profile that contains the sliders and the rolling elements, keeping dimensions compact.
  • Adjustable preload.
  • Nitrided, black oxidated and polished raceways.

Simplify Your Projects

When you need to move heavy loads in demanding applications, you don’t have to settle for the old ways of addressing misalignment.

Modern solutions are now capable of handling high load misalignment, offering innovative approaches to tackle even the most challenging industrial scenarios where heavy weights and precision movements intersect.

Rollon’s Compact Rail Plus integrates a self aligning bearing system with durable, double-row ball-bearings and high-rigidity rails. This combination provides the performance you require while keeping your project simple, offering both adaptability and robustness in a single solution.

To learn more about Compact Rail Plus, contact us

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Self-aligning linear guides with bearings and a C-profile made of cold-drawn carbon steel, induction hardened and ground raceways. One of the biggest reasons that our customers prefer this model is the fact that it easily solves misalignment issues, due to its self-aligning system.

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