Can A Shaft Collar Be Used On A Pipe?

Release Date: September 5, 2019

Pipes are certainly a type of shaft but there are considerations to make before using a shaft collar on a pipe.

Transcript

Location: North Plains, OR
Question: Can I use a one-piece shaft collar on a pipe?
Answer: Our shaft collars are sized for precision shafting which has a nominal tolerance of +0/-.002". This makes it hard to use a shaft collar with a pipe because the tolerancing on pipes is generally a plus-minus tolerance and it's much higher than what a nominal shaft would be. If the pipe is on the high side of the tolerance the collar won't actually fit over it. If it's on the low side you're going to go to clamp that collar down and the connection isn't going to be secure enough to have suitable holding power. In this case we guided the user to a two-piece collar which allows slightly more variance in the shaft tolerancing. It's still not going to have the holding power we publish on our website but it will fit around the pipe. In this case the user had a light duty application so there was really no risk to using the collar, even with reduced holding power.

You Might Also Be Interested In:

Two-Piece Shaft Collars- The full selection of Ruland two-piece shaft collars