Re: Lovejoy coupling

[COINARIAN@aol.com]

Russell, 
The resiliant (rubber or polyurethane) spyders for lovejoy couplings are for 
low horsepower applications and can tolerate more misalignment than the high 
horsepower metal (usually brass) spyders. I think that you could probably 
look up the specs for your coupler in a Grainger catalog. Usually one buys a 
Lovejoy as three seperate pieces, the motor end, the load end, and a spyder 
suitable to the load. I would imagine that for an EV, you would probably have 
to use a metal spyder. I tried resiliant on a 5.0 Hp log ICE log splitter app 
once and beat the spyder out in minutes. While I am sure that the firing 
strokes of the IC engine had something to do with it, after consulting the 
catalog, I changed to a metal one, and its still splitting logs, although its 
noisier than the poly one it replaced. Heres a hyperlink ><A 
HREF="http://www.grainger.com/cgi-bin/ngs?1160022Y2-527z3-931ZkkLOVEJOY";>Grain
ger Catalog-Lovejoy</A>< although they don't seem to list the specs for the 
spyders here. Hope this helps-Regards David Chapman.