Intech Power-Core Thermoplastics Engineering Blog

2 minute read
| May 4, 2010

Power-Core gear segment and pinion in high-speed card feeder

A high frequency reciprocating gear and pinion being used in a feeder to insert postcards into magazines was suffering...
| April 19, 2010

Double-rowed Power-Core drive sprocket in packaging machine

In food industry applications lubrication is always an issue, so for a packaging machine we designed a composite...
3 minute read
| April 6, 2010

Sliding-door roller assembly permitted by fire and building codes

Fire and building codes were modified a decade ago to permit the use of horizontal sliding door systems in many...
| March 31, 2010

No Embrittlement on Guide Rollers for Whistler Peak 2 Peak Cable Cars

When you are hanging a record 1,430 feet above the ground in a heavy cable car you want to be sure that the rollers it is...
2 minute read
| March 16, 2010

Combating vibration, shaft bearings are only as good as their grease

Intech Power-Core™ guide rollers and iCamFollowers™ absorb shock and vibration and their life is typically calculated for...
| March 1, 2010

“Will plastic rollers or cam followers last in my application?”

Together with a leading university we developed a roller life calculation, to reassure our customers of the reliability of...
2 minute read
| February 2, 2010

High speed rotating face cams machined from Power-Core™ outlast steel

Exact steerage requires dimensionally stable cam tracks with narrow tolerances. Our cams are precision machined from solid...
| January 19, 2010

Crystalline structure absorbs energy in high speed Power-Core roller.

A special design by Intech’s engineering staff, using a composite tire material, a tested method of manufacturing and...
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| January 7, 2010

Composite Worm Gears Extend Wear Life in Tough Applications

Intech engineers are frequently asked for help to determine worm gear size, design parameters and to make wear-life...
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