I need some help identifying this shaft component. I'm new to mechanical engineering and don't know what anything is past 'thread', 'bearing' and 'bushing', and I don't have any catalogues I can browse through until I find it.
With insert screwed in.
With insert removed, loose.
It seems to be some kind of laterally screw-adjustable bushing. There is a housing about 40mm long that is glued into the body of the instrument, into which a threaded insert is screwed.
I'm pretty sure it's not a tapered bushing, as it doesn't actually make contact with the shaft, it seems to just serve to hold a roller bearing inside against a wider portion of shaft. The bearing seems to be registering off the insert housing.
The photos are rather bad (damned iPad camera) but you can just about make out the fact that it's threaded.
Can anyone tell me a) what these are called, and b) the name of a good (preferably UK or European) supplier of this kind of drive component?
Many thanks,
Barnaby
With insert screwed in.
With insert removed, loose.
It seems to be some kind of laterally screw-adjustable bushing. There is a housing about 40mm long that is glued into the body of the instrument, into which a threaded insert is screwed.
I'm pretty sure it's not a tapered bushing, as it doesn't actually make contact with the shaft, it seems to just serve to hold a roller bearing inside against a wider portion of shaft. The bearing seems to be registering off the insert housing.
The photos are rather bad (damned iPad camera) but you can just about make out the fact that it's threaded.
Can anyone tell me a) what these are called, and b) the name of a good (preferably UK or European) supplier of this kind of drive component?
Many thanks,
Barnaby
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