The Realigning America Tour 2013 will host events in 35 cities in 24 states around the United States. The free seminars will help shaft alignment practitioners hone their alignment skills and learn about new alignment innovations. The “Realigning America Tour [...] Read More
This past week I had the pleasure of teaching a couple hybrid shaft alignment training classes–part of each class was using the rim and face dial indicator method and the other part was using a laser alignment tool. I love [...] Read More
The photo to the right was taken at a recent training class. The maintenance guys at this facility were excellent aligners. They were adamant about getting their shaft alignments to “better than excellent” levels. They believed in preparing the surfaces [...] Read More
One of my co-workers recently fielded a call from a customer, asking, “What is the proper way to size shims under motor feet?” In other words, if the foot is 6 by 4 inches square, how big should the shim [...] Read More
Previous blogs have discussed several different solutions for solving Base Bound & Bolt Bound conditions when preforming precision laser shaft alignment (Base/Bound Math and Solving Base/Bound Alignment Alignment Problems). Sometimes though, the solution for a Bolt Bound issue is fairly [...] Read More
Most maintenance personnel understand that documenting a precision shaft alignment is a good idea, but don’t always understand how to interpret the data. Here is a quick primer on how to read a typical alignment report. This shaft alignment report [...] Read More
The Realigning America Tour 2013 will host events in 35 cities in 24 states around the United States. The free seminars will help shaft alignment practitioners hone their alignment skills and learn about new alignment innovations. The “Realigning America Tour [...] Read More
During the OJT portion of a Fixturlaser GO Basic Training class, with the Army Corp of Engineers, the class aligned two electric motors driving large winch gearboxes on a dredging barge. These winches are used to move the barge into [...] Read More