Chain Applications

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A Guide to Pulley Design

A Guide to Pulley Design

Pulleys, also known as sheaves, are an essential item in a leaf chain system. It is a crucial moving part as an incorrectly designed pulley will have a big impact on performance and the working life of the equipment or the chain, or both. Pulleys should be designed to allow

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7 reasons to specify BL series leaf chain when designing new handling equipment

7 reasons to specify BL series leaf chain when designing new handling equipment

When faced with a choice of AL, EL-LL or BL-LH series leaf chain, we almost always recommend handling equipment designers to specify BL series leaf chain due to its superior consistency, strength and availability.   In most chain manufacturers’ catalogues you will find leaf chains according to three main standards – AL (American Light), EL-LL (European Light – Light Leaf) and BL-LH (Leaf

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Guide to leaf chain for telehandlers

How to maximise boom leaf chain life in telehandlers and MEWPs

Everything you need to know about how leaf chain should be incorporated into telehandler design and why leaf chain assemblies can often be the best solution – simplifying the design, manufacture, and compliance stages for safety-critical materials handling applications. In the field of telehandler design, incorporating leaf chain assemblies can

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Leaf chain service life

Choose a leaf chain for durability and strength

Environmental impacts Leaf chain service life and the environments in which leaf chain mechanisms operate can differ widely. Forklift truck leaf chain, for example, may be exposed to normal outdoor moisture, abrasion from sand or grit or highly corrosive industrial atmospheres. Some of the key environmental challenges include: Each specific

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