Machinery shimming and equipment reseating
Steel shims leave point contact under machine feet, so load transfers unevenly and equipment drifts out of alignment under load.
The need for machinery shimming and equipment reseating
BHI Coatings performs machinery shimming and equipment reseating across Alvin and the Texas Gulf Coast. Steel shims meet the machine foot at a few high points, so the load runs through those points and not the whole foot. Uneven contact lets the equipment drift out of alignment under load, and that drift works the bearings and couplings. Stacked steel shims fret and loosen on top of all that, so the setting you dialed in does not hold.
How BHI Coatings does machinery shimming and equipment reseating
We form load-bearing shims that cure to the exact shape of the mating surface, which spreads contact across the full foot. Insulating shims get poured the same way where the foot has to stay electrically or thermally isolated. It is cold-cure with no hot work, and our crew sets the machine to alignment before the shim cures, so the position is captured rather than approximated.
The machine seats on full-contact custom shims and holds precise alignment through physical and thermal cycling, instead of drifting around on point-contact steel.
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