Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:17 am
You may need to make a shaft that has the female drive on one end and the type of shaft coupling on the other end that you want to use. Then mount that shaft on a pair of bearings and then into a mounting plate that will mount and locate the shaft securely onto the end of the motor.
Basically you will be putting a new end bearing cap on to the motor to take a short shaft. The problems will be that the bearings for that short shaft will not give much support to the shaft so it will not be able to take any radial loads like gears or pulleys unless it has another bearing located at the far end of the shaft that is in a secure housing.
If you have to drive a gear then you may want a shaft that has the female to fit the motor and the gear as close to the motor as possible and the other end of the shaft located into a bearing in the gear housing. The motor will then be mounted on the gear housing too.
Too late in the day to draw pictures so I hope you get what I mean.
Basically you will be putting a new end bearing cap on to the motor to take a short shaft. The problems will be that the bearings for that short shaft will not give much support to the shaft so it will not be able to take any radial loads like gears or pulleys unless it has another bearing located at the far end of the shaft that is in a secure housing.
If you have to drive a gear then you may want a shaft that has the female to fit the motor and the gear as close to the motor as possible and the other end of the shaft located into a bearing in the gear housing. The motor will then be mounted on the gear housing too.
Too late in the day to draw pictures so I hope you get what I mean.