THE FOUR BENEFITS OF CAGED BALL LM (LINEAR MOTION) GUIDES

2. ORDERLY BALL MOVEMENT

The standard LM Guides consists of four rows of balls that recirculate within the LM block onto the LM rail with ball-to-ball contact whilst running on the raceways of a particular LM Rail. This results in a shortage of grease life, therefore, shortening the service life.

Caged Ball LM Guides consist of four rows of balls that recirculate within the LM block, onto the LM rail with no ball-to-ball contact whilst running on the raceways of a particular LM Rail. Hence Caged Ball technology.

The Caged Ball technology has the benefit of an absence of collision noise between the balls for quiet operation. Furthermore, an orderly ball movement with accurate alignment of balls as well as stable movement due to the elimination of sudden variations in friction.