Vibralign Blog

Alignment tolerances| dial indicator alignment| dial vs laser| rim and face| shaft alignment tolerances| TIR| tolerances

By Steve Gordon on July 30, 2018

Fixturlaser Shaft Alignment Tools come pre-programmed with generally accepted industry tolerances for electric motor driven machinery.  These tolerances are based on the motor RPM and will give you an “endpoint” in the alignment process (based on the measured offset and angular misalignment at the center point of the coupling in both the vertical and horizontal […]

bar sag| dial indicator alignment| Precision Shaft Alignment| Repeatability| rim and face| rod sag

By Steve Gordon on April 17, 2018

And it just may be a lot more than you would think. While visiting a customer site to do an alignment check using the EVO laser alignment tool on a 1750 HP Electric Motor / Boiler Feed Water Pump / 3574 rpm, measurements were taken several times (x3) to make sure the values were repeatable.  […]

"precision alignment"| "shaft alignment targets"| dial indicator alignment| Precision Shaft Alignment| troubleshooting

By Stan Riddle on April 27, 2017

A VibrAlign customer recently called, stating they were having repeatability problems with aligning a small motor to gearbox to pump.  After some phone conversation, I asked if they could send me photos of the machine, and the discrepancy in the measurements.  After seeing them, I knew what the problem was.   Machines with small diameter […]

"shaft alignment tools"| aligning machinery| dial indicator alignment| Dial Indicators

By Brad Case on May 30, 2014

Here’s the formula for better dial indicator alignments: Fixurlaser Dials App + Fixturlaser Dial Indicator Kit + Instructional Video Earlier this year we introduced the Free Fixturlaser Dials App. The app was designed to walk the user through the reverse rim alignment process using dial indicators. We are also now offering a new Dial Indicator […]