Powertrain engineering involves hundreds of parts, complex calculations, and careful modeling, requiring advanced technical skills and function-optimized design knowledge. From design to analysis to testing, companies rely on innovative and systematic professionals to develop reliable conventional, electric, and hybrid powertrain concepts for production.
Engineers must account for everything from filtration to fluid flow and environmental impact to long-term sustainability. Typical considerations range from calibration to diagnostics to performance optimization. After budgeting, scoping, material sourcing, prototyping, testing, and data analysis, the only measure of powertrain design success is the reliable and safe long-term operation in a near-endless array of situations.
One key area that can present a challenge is the spacing of individual components. The need for adjustable design elements leads many engineers to use shims in their assemblies. While this can serve as a decent stop-gap solution, there is a better answer.
Temper Corp Adjustable Spacers allow engineers to designate and employ a crush at a constant force over a wide range of “axial displacement” in their powertrain designs. Each spacer provides for the highly-accurate adjustment of bearings without clumsy shims. They can easily make loads as low as 100 lb, with standard loads between 100 lbs and 80 tons with outside dimensions between 1.5” to 60”.
Fabricated from ductile, high-strength stainless alloys, Temper Corp Constant Force Adjustable Spacers offer a small but repeatable amount of spring back that can be measured in .010” (10/1000ths of an inch) over a wide tolerance of take-up range.
Adaptable and compressible, Temper Adjustable Spacers provide highly-accurate bearing adjustments without requiring complex measurements and calculations. These simple but elegant engineering helpers help to eliminate the shimming and guesswork involved in Powertrain engineering, reducing design and assembly time, increasing bearing accuracy, and minimizing carrying costs.
These cost-effective stainless-steel adjustable spacers can be employed in a wide range of products, from farm tractors to boat engines to transmissions, or used to take up space that typical tolerance stack-ups may create.
Temper Corp to Exhibit at the ConExpo / ConAgg / IFPE Show
Temper Corp will be exhibiting at the ConExpo/ConAgg/IFPE show in Las Vegas on March 14 – 18. This is the #1 trade show and conference for fluid power, power transmission, and motion control innovations that create more efficient, productive, and sustainable solutions. The event will highlight the people, technologies, and applications leading the mobile equipment […]
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Adjustable Spacers in Mining
Although mining is one of the oldest industries, mining engineering continually pushes the boundaries of technology. This $4 billion industry relies on cutting-edge engineering and manufacturing of effective heavy equipment for the ongoing discovery and harvesting of raw materials. This drives mining engineers to find effective solutions for a number of challenges, including: Balancing load […]
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Did You Know about Our Machining Capabilities for Precision Machined Parts?
Precision machining involves many processes that remove excess material from a workpiece and create a finished product that meets tight tolerances.
