Did belt tension break my stepper shaft? August 04, 2015 09:44PM |
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You should witness the slack/slop, in belts of large equipment; especially on the humongous old machines, such as VTL's and Planers.
Naturally, small equipment usually requires higher belt tension.
Re: Did belt tension break my stepper shaft? August 19, 2015 08:47PM |
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"had recently tightened it in such a way that it would sound like a low note when plucked."
Hard to say, but that tells me that the tension was too tight.
Could be cheap,low grade, metal shaft material.
It's not good on other components, if you are plucking too many notes.
That's coming from a Machinist and Musician.
You should witness the slack/slop, in belts of large equipment; especially on the humongous old machines, such as VTL's and Planers.
Naturally, small equipment usually requires higher belt tension.
Re: Did belt tension break my stepper shaft? August 20, 2015 11:36AM |
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Re: Did belt tension break my stepper shaft? August 20, 2015 02:22PM |
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Did you have a chance to check out the other end of the shaft, like where the pulley is on? So the shaft you've just tested gives you a baseline from which you can tell if the other end of the shaft is much softer or the same/similar.
My reasoning being is that the shaft is almost certainly hardened. It broke in a clean fracture, and it also probably broke after a lot of repeated motions so it could have hardened a bunch from that.
But don't worry too much about this since it's just idle curiosity and I don't think there's anything profound to learn from this good experimenting.
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