100+ Years experience design & manufacturing of Flexible Drive
Match the core, casing and end connections to an existing machine, a new product or an unusual routing requirement.
Explore inner cores, protective outer casings and end fittings for complete assemblies, repairs and replacements.
A flexible drive shaft carries rotary power between components while following a curved or offset route. It can help where alignment is difficult, space is restricted or the driven equipment needs to move.
The correct shaft depends on its torque, speed, rotation direction, length, bends, environment and end connections.
Flexible Shafts have no need for the tight tolerances that solid shafts require.
Limitless possibilities in positioning motor and driven components.
Flexible Shafts are 85%-95% efficient. Gears, U-Joints Belts and Pulleys give much lower performance due to greater frictional losses.
Flexible couplings allow only 5 degrees of offset and U-Joints 30 degrees, but with a 40-50% decline in efficiency. Flexible Shafts permit a full 180 degree off-set while maintaining their high efficiency.
Flexible Shafts have a 3 to 1 weight advantage over other design solutions while transmitting greater power loads.
Flexible Shafts install in minutes without special tools or skills. Solid Shafts, Gears, Pulleys, and Universal Joints require precise alignment and skilled mechanics for their installations.
Bearings and housings for Solid Shafts and Gears require precise machining operations. Flexible Shafts eliminate the need for such demanding tolerances and their excessive costs.
Need no special installation tools.
Agriculture
Flexible drives for shearing, clipping, seed spreading and agricultural machinery.
Construction
Drive shafts for concrete vibration, pumping and other demanding site equipment.
Food
Automotive
Industrial Cleaning
Flexible drives, also known as flexible drive shafts or flex shafts, are versatile components used in various mechanical systems. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about them:
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The Company story began in the late 1920s in London selling imported descaling units. The business grew rapidly and new premises were needed in South Kensington in the 1940s. Manufacture of Flexible Drive products started at this time and was combined with a collect and repair service for flexible shafts in the London area.
A division of Fairport
Construction Equipment LTD, Blagden Street, Sheffield, S2 5QS.
