How many times have you replaced a motor and made sure you put the same shims back to ensure the new motor goes back in the same place as the old one? But doing so may end up bringing the issues that caused the old motor to fail to the new one. There is a better way to do things. The Easy-Laser XT550, XT660, & XT770 laser shaft alignment systems can help you make sure you don’t perpetuate an existing misalignment or soft foot problem over and over. Included with the system you also get an app called “Twist” which can help you determine if your base is flat. If you find it’s not, it will tell you what you can do to improve it. While the motor is off the base, create a common point or reference block in the middle of the base. The block can be made by the machine shop in-house and needs to have a top surface of 2 square inches to hold the measuring unit. See Figure 1 below:
Once the measurement is complete, the Twist app will tell you which machine foot is off plane or not flat and it will tell you how many shims to add under the foot to compensate, see Figure 2 below.
Download our Flatness vs. Levelness using a laser to measure the two infographic for a reference guide to the concepts of flatness and levelness!
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Alignment by Carlos Bienes CRL