I'm looking at making some large machinery moving skates and need some input. I'm starting with a design that our rigger uses.
Each skate has a top plate, 2 axles, 4 rollers and are heavy. The axles start out at 1.25" turned down to fit the roller id. Ihas a chunk of 1.25" thick steel 4" x 5" or so welded between the axles and top plate. The top plate is probably 3/8" steel
His rollers used some sort of off the shelf pallet jack load wheels for his main rollers. IT has a double row ball bearing inside of it I believe. Axles are lets say 1" or 30mm. I want to use a cam follower bearing for the main wheels to simplfy building these things. The cam follower I'm looking at is 3.25" OD 1.75 wide and has a 1" ID Bore. These are yoke mounts that I will slide into onto the 1: axle shaft and keep in place with use of a cir-clip.
I curious about side load (thrust) on these cam follower bearings. When we move a machine we I put 2 skates on the heavy end and 1 skate at the lighter end. This make the machine easy to move just jack up the machine a little and adjusted the 1 skate on the light end and you can make turns no problem..
We have a set of hillman skates that look like little tanks with swivel tops but our last machine destroyed them (too heavy) at 21,500 pounds.
Each Cam follower bearing has a dynamic load capacity of 15,000 lbs so each skate will have 60,000 lbs of dynamic load capacity giving the set of 3 a load rating of 180,000lbs - plenty right.
our hillman set was good for 30,000 lbs all together (4 skates)
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