Thanks for the response EdStainless. We do get wear on the back side, fairly frequently as the glued-on rubber wears out. I am not sure if the rubber is prone to catastrophic failure or if operator inattention leads to eventual failure when they don't do the proper pm by replacing the rubber. I...
Thanks, geesaman.d, the rubber will be in compression on the side between the spring and the pipe. It will be a mostly static stress, the spring won't be opening and closing repeatedly. You are probably right in that I will have to get springs made and then send them independently to a rubber...
I have a "pipe" section that gets hit by abrasive material, essentially sandblasting it. There is not much we can do to prevent this from happening, to mitigate the issue a 1/4-inch thick Rubber sheet ~2.5" tall is glued onto the 4-inch "pipe" as a sacrificial layer and is removed by the...
