There are a huge number of industries and applications which benefit from shrink fitting or removal. In practice, the methodology employed can vary from a simple manual approach where an operator assembles or disassembles the parts to fully automatic pneumatic or hydraulic press arrangements.
Industries and applications:
- Railway - gearboxes, wheels, transmissions
- Machine tools - lathe gearboxes, mills
- Steel works - roll bearings, roll neck rings
- Power generation - various generator components
- Cement Industries rollers
- Rerolling mill rollers
- Automotive starter rings onto flywheels
- Timing gears to crankshafts
- Motor stators into motor bodies
- Motor shafts into stators
- Removal and re-fitting of a gas turbine impeller
- Removal and re-fitting of hollow bolts in electrical generators
- Assembly of high precision roller bearings
- Shrinkfitting of 2-stroke crankshafts for ship engines