Hardened Shaft

For use as guide shafts, the steel shafts must have a hardened surface. This guarantees that the balls of the ball bushings running on them do not run in due to the small contact surface. To ensure that they can still be machined, the steel shafts are inductively surface-hardened. This keeps the core soft and also provides high toughness for absorbing dynamic loads.

Hardened steel shafts are available as solid shafts made of Cf53, chrome-plated or corrosion-resistant X90CrMoV18 (1.4112) or as hollow shafts made of C 60 or 100 Cr6.