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White Paper – True Cost of Bearing Lubrication

This white paper explains how much it actually costs to lubricate a ball bearing and the cost saving benefits of switching to a self-lubricating plastic bearing.

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Ready to replace your older PTFE lined bearings?

Compare how drylin® performs compared to bearings which use a PTFE-based, bonded liner, in both wear and friction testing.

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Lower Drive Force and Friction with Hybrid Rolling Bearings

Learn how hybrid rolling bearings can reduce bearing friction, reduce required drive force, and allow system functionality without conforming to the 2:1 rule.

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How can you convert rotational to linear motion?

Find out why lead screws are the ideal solution for converting rotary motion to linear motion.

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The 2:1 Rule and Defining Fixed/Floating Bearings

Get an expert advice on how to implement the 2:1 rule into your linear designs.

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3 Tips for Selecting a Linear Slide Table

Download PDF Whether you are looking to design your own linear slide table assembly, orpurchase a ready-made, off-the-shelf system, there are a huge number ofoptions available on the market today. Component choices, such as plasticor bronze lead screw nuts, ball screws, and belt-drives can make selecting thebest slide table system difficult. In this brief tech talk, […]

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Low profile linear slides for office furniture

Low profile DryLin N linear slides are ideal for office furniture applications, as well as a multitude of others. For additional information, visit http://www.igus.com

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How to Change a Plastic Bearing Liner

Watch this video to see just how easy it is to switch out a plastic liner in an igus® drylin® W linear guide carriage.

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Trapezoidal lead screw drive test

drylin® TR lead screw drives are based on oil-free, self-lubricating plastic nuts offering a long service life.

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Webinar – The True Cost of Bearing Lubrication

Matt Mowry, linear bearings product manager, discusses how bearing lubrication failures affect your budget and the environment. This video originally aired during GlobalSpec''s Motion Control online ev

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drylin® W Toolkit

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Webinar – Discover the World of Plastic Bearings

Discover the World of Plastic Bearings. Presented by igus and hosted by Globalspec on August 21, 2013. igus Product managers Matt Mowry and Nicole Lang discuss plastic bearing technology.

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The igus® linear bearing tool kit

DryLin W linear rails and guides are most often recommended by igus sales engineers when they''re assisting customers with new designs. The combination of flexibility, long life and low cost are the dr

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drylin® linear systems quality assurance

Take a ride down the quality testing line with one of igus'' DryLin linear systems as it prepares to ship out of the factory

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igus® Design World product spotlight Linear Guide

Leslie Langnau from Design World explains how an igus® Linear Guide can be used in photography applications as camera slides.

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robolink® vs. drylin® – The Checkers Championship

The Robolink D modular robotic arm and drylin® linear guide system face off in a fully-automated game of checkers. Check out how igus products can enhance your automation applications at http://www.ig

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drylin® Files Episode 6 – How to use the drylin Expert 2.0

Episode 6 of Drylin files - During this episode our host Kristen Crowell explains how to measure dimensions and effectively use the DryLin expert system to choose an appropriate linear slide product.

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igus® introduces the drylin® Curved Rail

igus® drylin® self-lubricating linear systems now offers profile rails curved to customers' exact requirements. These curved rails are made from hard anodized aluminum, which offers exceptional fricti

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drylin® stop motion adjustable guides

igus® has developed an easy way to apply firm hold and predictable adjustment distances to linear motion guides in the Drylin W line. This new line features a preloaded ball and plunger, lightly prel

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drylin® W toolkit for linear motion

This video walks through the features and benefits of the igus® Drylin W product line optimized for linear motion. Bearing blocks are made from die-cast zinc, aluminium, and stainless steel. The Dryli

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igus® Free Design – Curved rails, custom guides, individual linear systems

Read more about the drylin® W carriage for curved rails: http://www.igus.com/wpck/16988/N16_06_01?playlistid=90&WT.mc_id=GPL&C=US&L=en

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