Available from stock – drylin® T – The cost-effective lubrication free alternative to recirculating ball bearings
Shery George | 4 August 2022
Who likes to have greasy hands? You might know this from your own children. They quickly eat a few fries and then wipe the greasy fingers on the T-shirt. Nobody likes to have greasy fingers or grease stains on their clothes. If you work with machine elements such as ball bearings, gears or linear guides, it is almost impossible to avoid this contamination, isn’t it?
The fact is that all movements of metal on metal must be provided with a lubricating layer. Oils or greases are used for this purpose. If these are not present or are not relubricated regularly, the system will fail.
Grease thus ensures the function of a metallic bearing but can also be extremely troublesome in many applications. Have you ever seen bearing getting corroded/getting failed because of inadequate lubrication or recirculate ball damaging the rails or shafts?
Isn’t it a big worry for all engineers to find solution for these problems?
You would love to know that Drylin linear bearing has already resolved millions of existing conventional bearing problems like corrosion, Noise, Weight reduction and many more. It is also 1:1 interchangeable with conventional recirculating bearing.
Let’s see the working of drylin linear bearing.
drylin® T slides instead of roll
The drylin® linear bearings enable maintenance-free and lubrication-free operation of parts of machines and equipment whose function is determined by relative movements in a straight line between components. The special dry-tech® high-performance plastics of the bearing bushings ensure that machine elements can be moved along a shaft or profile guide silently and with little friction. Compared to linear solutions with rolling elements, the acquisition costs are up to 40% lower and there are no additional operating costs. In linear ball bearings, one or several rows of balls support the shaft. To work properly, they need a ball recirculation system that guides the balls back in the direction opposite to the shaft’s direction of movement. The ball recirculation system and the high level of stress on the balls due to the load being applied to a small point on each ball are factors that result in potential weak spots and noise. Recirculating ball systems can be replaced with igus® linear bearings of the drylin® series in nearly all areas of use. Due to their simple structure, the drylin®
linear plain bearings have very little susceptibility to failure. Lubrication-free operation means that the machine parts remain free of dirt, dust and moisture. Another advantage is the very quiet operation of the drylin® linear bearings.
Caption: Change now to drylin.
For more details visit our website www.igus.in/drylin
PRESS CONTACT:
Ashish Rai
Product Manager – Drylin®
igus®(India) Private Limited
36/1, Sy. No. 17/3, NCPR Layout, Euro School Road,
Dodda Nekkundi Industrial Area – 2nd Stage
Mahadevapura Post
Bangalore – 560048
Karnataka, India arai@igus.net
ABOUT IGUS:
igus GmbH develops and produces motion plastics. These lubrication-free, high-performance polymers improve technology and reduce costs wherever things move. In energy supplies, highly flexible cables, plain and linear bearings as well as lead screw technology made of tribo-polymers, igus is the worldwide market leader. The family-run company based in Cologne, Germany, is
represented in 35 countries and employs 4,900 people across the globe. In 2021, igus generated a turnover of €961 million. Research in the industry’s largest test laboratories constantly yields innovations and more security for users. 234,000 articles are available from stock and the service life can be calculated online. In recent years, the company has expanded by creating internal startups, e.g. for ball bearings, robot drives, 3D printing, the RBTX platform for Lean Robotics and intelligent “smart plastics” for Industry 4.0. Among the most important environmental investments are the “chainge” programme – recycling of used e-chains – and the participation in an enterprise that produces oil from plastic waste.
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