Good sheave alignment will increase efficiency by reducing premature wear or failure of belts, pulleys and bearings. This can be accomplished by several different alignment methods, suc..
Good sheave alignment will increase efficiency by
reducing premature wear or failure of belts, pulleys and
bearings. This can be accomplished by several different
alignment methods, such as the labor-intensive string and
straightedge method (most common) or by laser. The latter, in
the form of the DotLine Laser Pulley Alignment Tool (Fig. 1),
is new to the sheave alignment field, but has proven itself
in greatly reducing downtime and the manpower needed to do
the alignment. Simultaneously, it achieves far greater
accuracy. This results in great labor savings and increased
production uptime.
A V-belt drive is a very effic
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