What are the advantages and disadvantages of the linear guide?

The linear guide plays an important and essential role in people’s lives.

However, some people have no understanding of the definition of the linear guide. This report will give you an introduction to the linear guide by illustrating the types and functions and make a rational analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the linear guide.

• The types of the linear guideway.

• The basic structure of the linear guide.

• Where can we use a linear guide?

• What are the precautions of the linear guide?

The types of the linear guide.

There are two classifications of linear guideway, including ball-type linear guideway and roller-type linear guideway, which have different characteristics. The evaluation criteria for distinguishing between these two types of guideways are precision and speed.

To be more specific, a linear guideway can be divided into many types of guideway based on the physical aspects of friction away, including sliding friction linear guideway, rolling friction linear guideway, flow friction linear guideway, and so on.

The basic structure of a linear guide.

The basic structure consists of linear guides, linear motion sliding guides, and balls for rolling bearings. Linear guides are used for linear reciprocating motion and can bear a certain amount of torque, enabling high-precision linear motion under high load conditions.

Noticeably, the function of linear guide rails is basically determined by the construction of rolling bearing units. The number of guide grooves for balls on the guide rails is called the "number of rows", and the number of contact points for balls in the raceway is used as the "number of point contacts" to express the construction of ball bearing units. The construction of this multi-row ball bearing maintains its accuracy even when subjected to moment loads during rapid acceleration and deceleration or when operating continuously for long periods under severe conditions.

Where can we use a linear guide?

linear guideway is widely applied in many situations. The role of the linear guide movement is to support and guide the moving parts to make reciprocating linear movements in a certain direction. Generally speaking, there is a lot of machinery, instruments, and electronic equipment that will be used for the linear guide, not only because of its high precision but also because of its simple structure and ease of installation and dismantling.

What are the precautions of the linear guide?

Linear guides are a kind of precision parts. Therefore, it requires considerable care during the process of use. Otherwise, it will prone to damage.

Firstly, it is important to wash off the sweat from your hands thoroughly when taking the linear guide directly by hand, as this is to prevent rusting.

Secondly, keep the environment clean. Keep the linear guide and its surrounding environment clean is invisible to the naked eye tiny dust into the guide rail, but also increase the wear, vibration, and noise of the guide rail.

Besides, during the process of installation, do not allow strong stamping, do not allow hammering directly on the guide rail, and do not allow transferring pressure through the rolling body.

Finally, the installation tool should be suitable. Use suitable and accurate installation tools for the linear guide rails, use special tools as far as possible, and avoid using a cloth and short fibers and the like.

These are the precautions for linear guide, linear guide itself is a high-precision tool, attention must be paid to maintenance, any link can not appear negligent.