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Axial Piston Pump Bearings
Best-in-class bearings for the most challenging applications
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Axial Piston Pump Bearings
Best-in-class bearings for the most challenging applications
Proven Performance
Feroglide Axial Piston Pump Bearings
Feroglide bearings are best-in-class fully self-lubricating components, comprising a reinforced PTFE-composite contact bearing surface on a strong metal substrate. Feroglide operates with little to no lubrication, from -196 °C to +300 °C, and with extreme speed oscillating, reciprocating, rotating, or sliding movements.
Feroglide has years of proven experience installed as the cradle bearing for variable displacement axial piston pumps, one of the most challenging applications possible for a plain bearing.
Feroglide carries higher loads than other bearings, up to 60,000 PSI stationary load. Feroglide avoids downtime thanks to its longer service life and quicker installation. Feroglide offers excellent resistance to bearing fatigue, chemical attack, and cavitation. The reinforced Feroglide liner does not suffer plastic deformation or creep.
Increase Pump Efficiency
Self-lubricating, low-friction bearings
Feroglide is self-lubricating, which ensures better pump efficiency. Feroglide gives high performance without taking away process fluid for bearing lubrication. This means all hydraulic fluid is used to give maximum output boom movement.
Increasingly, it has been seen that high-end applications require better high-speed control over displacement with the fastest swashplate reaction times. This gives operators excellent movement control over machinery. Low-friction Feroglide bearings contribute directly to this, by avoiding any stick-slip in the swashplate. Feroglide offers a low, constant coefficient of friction with no resistance. Thus, when using Feroglide cradle bearings, the swashplate moves freely and this promises constantly smooth machinery movement.
Reduced Operating Costs
Quicker bearing installation
Other bearing options can result in resistance to movement which detracts from machinery movement ability. A further benefit of Feroglide is the reduction in cost to manufacture, repair, and operate variable displacement axial piston pumps. Tenmat designs bespoke fitment and bearing installation designs, giving quicker bearing installation to save both time and money. The same is true for repair jobs using easy-install Feroglide parts.
For these reasons, world-leading axial piston pump manufacturers already specify Ferobide cradle bearings in medium-pressure and high-pressure units. Significant improvement in pump performance is achieved when using Feroglide parts.
Why Feroglide
High speed control
Enables high-speed control of machinery with a hysteresis reaction quicker than <0.1 second
Smoother movement
Enables smoother movement by avoiding stick-slip due to its constant low friction
Self lubricates
Self-lubricates, with parts that are proven to improve pump efficiency, ensuring all hydraulic fluid is used for movement
Reduced costs
Reduces costs through the longer lifetime and quicker installation of parts
Market leading
Offers market-leading load bearing capacity and shock load resistance
Lightweight design
Parts enable a lightweight, low-noise, smaller pump design
Materials
Feroglide
Feroglide bearings are typically used in valves, hydropower equipment, lifting equipment and many other applications.
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Contents
Feroglide enables high-speed control of machinery with a hysteresis reaction quicker than <0.1 second
Feroglide enables smoother movement by avoiding stick-slip thanks to its constant low friction
Self-lubricating Feroglide parts are proven to improve pump efficiency, ensuring all hydraulic fluid is used for movement
Costs are reduced through the longer lifetime and quicker installation of Feroglide parts
Feroglide offers market-leading load bearing capacity and shock load resistance