Who Decides Your Shaft Alignment Tolerances?
When you opt to use your own shaft alignment tolerances instead of using the industry standards, how do you decide what to use? The subject of shaft alignment tolerances has been touched on before but a couple interesting discussions have taken place recently during training classes.… Read More
VibrAlign Is Out To Realign America!
I think aligning America is what we need to do… or Realigning America.
Years ago alignments were done properly, but some of the old millwrights had days or weeks to install machinery. In this day and time it’s twice the work and half the … Read More
Align a Cooling Tower in Under an Hour
Aligning cooling towers with spacer shafts can sometimes present a challenge. We recently provided alignment training and assistance to the HVAC Group at the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, VA.
This was a Marley cooling tower, with a 60 HP motor, connected to the gearbox … Read More
Why Blog About Shaft Alignment?
VibrAlign’s blog has been up for a few months now, and we hope the information we have all shared has been informative. But, with all of the information available on the internet, why a blog dedicated to shaft alignment? At VibrAlign, we’re out to Realign America… Read More
What’s Eating Your Couplings?
If you are a regular Alignment Blog reader, you may remember an entry in which Stan Riddle discussed why we should care about precision alignment of flexible couplings. Today, I would like to offer up some evidence that many of you may well relate to. … Read More
Calculating Foot Target Values
A couple of weeks ago we calculated cold alignment targets from field data. We ended up with angles and offsets but the class wanted to go through the math involved in calculating the foot values. It was an interesting math exercise so if you’re up … Read More
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