set up multiple linear guidelines

[Davimont]

Unfortunately they are components that I did not take for my projects but in a job I had to use them to move a door with 6 meters run.

we are not talking about cnc so here the accuracy does not center.

The problem arises with the guide provider is that I can't cut them to the extent that I need them, but they are already required to the right size because the heads are then adjusted.

when I saw them installed in the workshop I do not remember this detail and it was only proved that they were well aligned and that the ball-circulation slider did not present impurities to pass on the guide.

What can you tell me about it? the problem is that now I do not send them to cut and rectify and tomorrow the colleague leaves for the installation.

 

[DrBarde]

If the accuracy is not high, it can be evaluated to mount the first rigid and the others with sunshades to put them in axis.

 

[Diego536]

makes sense what the supplier tells you... a diy cut (flexible? disk saw?) would not allow you an acceptable coupling between the heads and this risk to decrease the life of the skate due to the potential steps that you create between the cut faces of the guides. said this,in a similar situation you arrange doing the best you can,but surely the ideal solution is that proposed by the supplier.

 

[PIETRO2002]

for your application are indispensable guides with ball recirculation trolleys or maybe you can also go well with guides to rollon or other brands, maybe cheaper and easier installation.

 

[Davimont]

if the accuracy is not high, it can be evaluated to mount the first rigid and the others with sunshades to put them in axis.

you have the ability to adjust for alignment

makes sense what the supplier tells you... a diy cut (flexible? disk saw?) would not allow you an acceptable coupling between the heads and this risk to decrease the life of the skate due to the potential steps that you create between the cut faces of the guides. said this,in a similar situation you arrange doing the best you can,but surely the ideal solution is that proposed by the supplier.

surely i will remember it next time, this time it was the first and i have taken it seriously for granted that a cut made with criterion maybe with disc cutter or tape.

for your application are indispensable guides with ball recirculation trolleys or maybe you can also go well with guides to rollon or other brands, maybe cheaper and easier installation.

no, it was okay to have any guide with respective trolleys that were not the drawers but with a minimum of precision because the door is motorized.
the customer has expressly requested those for a question of spare parts on the machine since they are already present in other points.

 

[DrBarde]

I'm sorry, but I feel very busy with a door.
However they have such a precision that I would say that putting them in a hand axle is highly risky.
The only thing that comes to mind to overcome the problem now is, if possible, to put them in a cut aluminum plate so that they are centered and guided. . .

but I want to point out that this is a ''tacconature'' with a risk rate not indifferent.

for a door, even if motorized, for the future I would propend for guides that allow a greater game. but given the situation, you can only opt for the skill of the technician who will go to mount them. if he could even for a short time make them work, perhaps trying as much as possible to keep the axis and what else, just for the time to send the correct guides, maybe you could save the situation. to the worst you could fill the guide in the joints, but the cart would suffer.

 

[Davimont]

drbarde you are perfectly right, for such an application I would have used only simple wheels guided by a track but now we are at this point.