Miscellaneous Applications Filled Bearings

Chain guide for "puller block" in conjunction with extruder

MICROPOLY TYPE:

1" x 2" x 12" chain lube block

CONDITIONS:

Frictional heat on expensive profiled UHMW chain guide caused softening of guide and replacement of 40 blocks, 2 or 3 times a year.

RESULTS:

Customer cuts MicroPoly blocks into 6" lengths and machines sides down to provide two raised shoulders. MicroPoly has doulbed the life of the UHMW. Change out on the guides had cost customer $500 per block. Forty blocks x 2 changes per year saved $20,000.