Other Ring Types & speial design
Constant Section Rings
Another popular choice of retaining ring configurations is the well known Constant Section Ring. Produced by edgewinding with no special tooling charges, Constant Section Rings have been specified for many years in the automotive and heavy equipment industries as a standard choice of engineers. Gandini has hundreds of standard Constant Section Rings in stock, in carbon steel and stainless steel and in both inch and metric sizes. Special or custom designs can be produced quickly and economically utilizing Smalley?s precision No-Tooling-Cost manufacturing process.
Constant Section Rings can withstand high forces and impact loads and are easily installed and removed from their internal or external groove for field servicing your product.
Wavering
The WaveRing is a spiral retaining ring with an axial wave form. It acts like a standard retaining ring with the additional feature of compressibility. It compensates for the overall length tolerance of stacked components, while still acting as a retaining ring. Once assembled the WaveRing will reduce looseness and vibration in the assembly.
Designed to fit into a groove, the WaveRing applies pressure in two directions: against the groove wall and against the assembly components. Single, double or multiple turns in the WaveRing are possible as well as a choice of materials, including our standard 17-7 PH stainless and carbon steel.
Special Rings
A major segment of Smalley manufacturing is in "special" or prototype retaining rings. Common Smalley specials include balanced, multi-turn (4,5,6 turns and more) and special ends in diameters from 5 mm - 3000" (0,200 in 120 in) and larger. Smalley engineers are on hand to help you design a ring specific to your application. Because there are no tooling costs, no job is too big or too little.
Prototypes can be quickly and economically produced to test a design; in days, not weeks.