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Cardan Shaft Alignment

May 26, 2011

May 2011 • MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY Cardan Shaft Alignment: These applications aren’t as straightforward as others. Their special considerations call for special tools and approaches. A Cardan shaft is, in the simplest terms, a spacer shaft with a universal joint coupling on each end. (Its name comes from a 16th-century Italian mathematician, Girolamo Cardano.) This type of […]