Fig. 1, UniSlide Assembly components

Dovetail Base (White color) The dovetail base is composed of hard alloy aluminum. The Ways are traditional 60 degree opposing V-type. The Dovetail Base starts out as an extrusion that is subsequently machined to a high degree of straightness and parallelism. Cosmetic anodizing, hard-coat anodizing, and hard-nickel plating are offered to meet the different customer requirements for appearance, cleanliness, and long life. More

Slider (Yellow color) The Slider is the moving element or carriage. Like the Base it is made of hard alloy aluminum machined to close tolerances. Lead Screw This is a threaded drive screw of the highest accuracy obtainable by the thread rolling process. Velmex uses 303 series stainless steel or electro less nickel plated carbon steel for the lead screw material.

Bearing Block (Purple color) The Bearing Block contains a pair of bearings preloaded to constrain the Lead Screw axially and radially. More

Rulon PTFE Bearing Pads These are the linear bearings that minimize sliding friction as low as 0.06 coefficient of friction. The pads are 0.020" thick and are permanently bonded to the Slider at four locations. The gib adjustment provides the user a means to adjust preload force and compensate for pad wear.

Lead Screw Nut (Orange color) This is the connection between the Lead Screw and the Slider. The nut is made of Delrin or Delrin AF providing low friction, and minimal backlash. Photo

Knob/Crank (Blue color) Manual UniSlide models come standard with either the Knob/Crank combination or a Rogan Knob. More

Adapters for Multi-axis Configurations There are several standard adapter plates and brackets available to connect UniSlides in XY, XZ, XYZ, or with a Rotary axis. More