Jashley73
Titanium
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2013
- Location
- Louisville, KY
Folks,
We're using some rubber gripper pads to lift some parts with out robot. Part has a yoke with a "U" shaped opening. Gripper goes inside of this "U" shaped opening, then 'opens' to grab & lift the part. This is a friction grip.
Gripper in question is a polyurethane rubber gripper pad, McMaster-Carr part number 9306k71.
McMaster-Carr
We're having trouble with some of our painted parts slipping nearly, or sometimes completely out of the grippers.
Tonight, in McGyver fashion, I used some gorilla tape to fasten some emery cloth to the outside of these rubber grippers, and saw a humungous improvement.
Is anyone aware of any commercially available gripper pads, which are rubber, or compressible, which also have an abrasive grit for a little extra 'bite' to them?
Thank you!
FWIW, serrated metal grippers don't really work. The robot's gripper doesn't have enough force to indent the metal grippers into the part material (steel, approximately 35hrc, with a slick coat of hardened paint), and thus, they just slip right out...
We're using some rubber gripper pads to lift some parts with out robot. Part has a yoke with a "U" shaped opening. Gripper goes inside of this "U" shaped opening, then 'opens' to grab & lift the part. This is a friction grip.
Gripper in question is a polyurethane rubber gripper pad, McMaster-Carr part number 9306k71.
McMaster-Carr
We're having trouble with some of our painted parts slipping nearly, or sometimes completely out of the grippers.
Tonight, in McGyver fashion, I used some gorilla tape to fasten some emery cloth to the outside of these rubber grippers, and saw a humungous improvement.
Is anyone aware of any commercially available gripper pads, which are rubber, or compressible, which also have an abrasive grit for a little extra 'bite' to them?
Thank you!
FWIW, serrated metal grippers don't really work. The robot's gripper doesn't have enough force to indent the metal grippers into the part material (steel, approximately 35hrc, with a slick coat of hardened paint), and thus, they just slip right out...