Stainless steel V rail wheels

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Stainless steel V rail wheels

Postby keos » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:31 am

What do you guys think about using SS V wheels for the makerslide rails
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Re: Stainless steel V rail wheels

Postby nismobg » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:34 am

too much wear
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Re: Stainless steel V rail wheels

Postby bdring » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:37 am

It works OK if you hard coat the rail. I had tested it. The makerslide wheels are a different size than ss v wheels so you need to adjust the dimensions of the brackets.
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Re: Stainless steel V rail wheels

Postby keos » Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:12 am

dbring; what do you mean by hard coating the rails; please explain
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Re: Stainless steel V rail wheels

Postby Cre8ivdsgn » Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:50 pm

"Hardcoating" is a somewhat generic term for anodizing. Anodizing is a process where you take aluminum and run a current through it while dipping it in a tank filled with acid. This changes the surface of the aluminum into an aluminum oxide layer - something that I believe resembles a honeycomb. This layer is literally a ceramic layer and very tough and abrasion resistant. Some folks seem to forget that it is still supported by the underlying aluminum and with enough pressure and time, this hardcoat layer can break down. Hardcoating is wonderful and actually makes a good wear surface (especially with teflon), but steel wheels represent a point contact.
Still, I view things from the perspective of 24/7/365 where hardcoat and stainless steel v-wheels have... a limited life expectancy. For the home hobbyist hardcoat would work well enough with steel wheels and would outlast the life of a laser tube, for example (with reasonable adjustment - anything can break with the right forces!).
Hardcoating typically is done either in black or clear and the layer is about 0.002"-0.003" (50 to 75 microns) thick while standard anodizing is about 5 times thinner.
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