What is Keyway?

Keyway is a square channel machined in a round steel rod. The channel or key track provides a location for a square piece of metal known as the key to locking the pulley or the chain wheel on the round bar. The square key fits into a key and square slot machined in a chain wheel or gear. The key creates a safe mount between the round bar and the toothed bar and creates a robust connection in the assembly. Typically, the key track is machined in a piece of steel before any heat treatment or a piece of hardening. The axles, crankshafts and driving shafts use all the key ways to hold other components on the spot when they turn and provide strength to control other mechanisms. In some critical components, such as the propeller shafts, a special supply of soft keys is used to allow the key to emerge if it contacts the hard surface. Using a shear pin or key material, the shaft damage is removed because it is permitted to rotate without spinning without damageshafts.

In car engines, the crankshaft has a key path processed to the end of the snout that holds a harmonious balancing balancing in place. All engine accessories, such as an alternator, air conditioning compressor, and an energy control pump are powered by strips that are powered by this balancing. Some of these accessories, such as a power control pump, usually use a key path reversed to the pump shaft to hold the drive pulley on the spot.

usually offered in many sizes, channel size in the shaft and the key must be compared correctly. Disappointing the key to the correct size with the correct size channel would result in a non -depleted adaptation between the gearing or the pulley and the shaft. Any resulting slope would eventually lead to a broken key or damaged device, pulley or shaft. There are also different styles of key ways that can be afteruse different applications.

While the keys of the square key is the most commonly used key material, half the keys are used in many motor keys. This half -wheeled key style is popular in applications where the entire key is located under a single device or pulley. With this key, the shaft is milled to accept the round part of the key. The remaining key emerges from the shaft as a flat and square key that slips into the groove of the gearbox or pulley.