I think they are called. I'm cobbling something together that needs to follow a vertical track and I figured a pipe with those concave rubber/nylon/whatever wheels would do the trick.
So I need a vendor with a good online catalog so I can select a standard size and load bearing capacity. Anyone have a name and/or link?
Widely used in the film industry.
Try uline.com. They have a LOT of material handling related items.
Steve
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Is this close to what you are looking for?
technomaNge
V grove wheels / bearings are more popular for reasonably accurate linear motion. Pipe type are more for film/video dollies.
Plastic rollers:
Capacity of the steel rollers is usually limited by the hardness of the track.
Just remembered these.
Have you considered cam followers?
jsw
Laterally (the pipe is vertical) about 50-75 lbs.
Plastic, rubber or nylon would be preferable from a noise point of view. But if its gotta be steel, steel will do.
This isn't a precision application. Film dolly accuracy will do.
Close. But at $90 bucks a pop, pretty expensive. I'll be fabricating my own mounting brackets (probably the axles too) so most of these I'll end up throwing away. But the wheels look nice. Maybe a bit big (1" O.D. pipe will probably do).
They're also more common and likely cheaper. Commonly used for sliding gates running on angle iron tracks.
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