On 15 February 2012 21:29, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: >> Gene - the encoder wheel I use is 3mm Tufnol sheet, painted black.
> The plastic, except for temporary fitting wouldn't do for permanent as it > will be trapped between the spindle preload nut, and it's locking nut in > normal operation. That is driven tight with a drift punch in the nut > slots. The plastic will 'cold flow', loosening the nut, and that won't be > good for things. Tufnol won't cold-flow, it's phenolic paper (or phenolic fabric). Long-term stability is one of the properties they sell it on. http://www.tufnol.com/tufnol/default.asp?id=92 "creep is minimal" -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
