Linear guides and machined shafts on rapid deliveries

Schaeffler has a large stock of shafts available from its UK Linear Quick-Centre, which is located at the company's UK manufacturing plant in Llanelli, South Wales. This facility enables Schaeffler to offer UK customers rapid deliveries on linear systems, rails, shafts, cages and carriages, as well as customer-specific machined shafts. The Linear Quick Centre can machine shafts up to 6m in length, with diameters between 5mm and 80mm. Monorails can also be machined up to 6m in length. Materials include induction-hardened steel, stainless steel and aluminium support rails. Examples of rapid shaft deliveries from the Linear Quick-Centre include linear shafts with machined flats, grooves, drilled and tapped holes, or shafts manufactured to very close tolerances. Accessories such as mounting blocks, plain bushes, brackets and other fabricated items have also been supplied. A wide range of linear shafting is available and can be supplied with or without related linear guides or bearings. Shafts are available as high precision solid (one-piece), hollow or machined shafts made from quenched and tempered steel to rolling bearing quality. Solid shafts can be supplied with outside diameters from 4mm up to 80mm with shaft tolerance to H6 (other tolerances are available on request). For mounting, solid shafts can be supplied with radial and axial threaded holes or can be manufactured to suit individual customer specifications. Shafts made from standard CF53 are induction hardened and ground. Hollow shafts are only available in quenched and tempered steel. As an alternative to CF53, customers can request solid shafts with corrosion-resistant steels, for example, in X90CrMoV18, which offers surface hardness equivalent to stainless steel. These steels are ideal for food processing applications, medical equipment and semiconductor technology. For more information, please ask for a copy of the WF1 catalogue. www.schaeffler.co.uk info.uk@schaeffler.com