Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Cable Trough or Cable Chain

Hi,

Try http://www.gortite.com/

Regards,

Terry

JanRwl@... wrote:

>In a message dated 12/22/2002 10:30:37 AM Central Standard Time,
>norman_larson@... writes:
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>>I've been looking for a manufacturer of the plastic
>>chain product that is used as a cable trough on gantry
>>type equipment. The product I'm looking for is shown
>>at the bottom of the web page
>>http://www.practicalcnc.com/
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>Norman:
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>The firm you want uses the "brand name" "Gortite" for this kinda thing. They
>make stuff small enough for microscope-stages on up to things that'd carry a
>good square-foot of cables and hoses. I used some of their stuff on a huge
>router table I built nearly twenty years back. I THINK the mfgr. name is "A &
> A Manufacturing". A Google (etc) search oughta find it for you! Lotsa
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Gortite is a plastic bellows-like product used to cover slides and
ballscrews on machines
to keep swarf and dust off the precision surfaces. The maker is
Goretex. Goretex probably has
other product lines in the cable/hose chain area, but Goretite is for a
somewhat different
product.

Jon


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