New Slow Motion Footage from Testing

🎥New slow motion footage from our latest wear testing rigs is just cool, what do you think?

This was captured on our in-house designed and manufactured wear rigs

A small interview with our head of engineering  Josh Palmer sheds light on the nitty gritty details on these engineering marvels.

“New Motion Labs’ wear rigs are designed to apply realistic and consistent loads to chain sprocket systems over 1000s of hours to physically simulate chain-sprocket wear.” says Josh “The rigs are designed to be as space (put size) and cost efficient (put cost) as possible to maximise our data collection capabilities and minimise our carbon emissions.”

"But how exactly do we achieve this?"

Josh breaks it down: “To do this each rig uses a torsion spring (torsion spring coupling if you like to be fancy!) to mechanically pre-load two chain systems against each other. This means we don’t need electrical power to apply the load — only to keep the system moving. That massively cuts down on energy use, component size, and costs.”

"Can we really simulate multiple chain systems at once?" 

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”Yes, the torsion spring coupling also allows us to control the center distance — this means that the two chain systems on each rig can also elongate at different rates, further expanding our test capacity and simulate multiple chains at once.” explains Josh, giving us two sets of data for the price of one! 

🎯 The result? Test data that is accurate and sustainably derived, increasing our deeper knowledge into chain drive sprocket deigns and roller chain wear and efficiency over time.