Flexible couplings couple or connect rotating members such as motors and drive shafts while allowing misalignment in either angular or parallel offset orientation. Sliding blocks are slotted or jawed ...

Figure 5.63: Typical benefits of flexible shafts. When mounting a motor to drive a pump, a gearbox, or any device with self-contained bearings, a conventional coupling can absorb only small amounts of ...

Ironically, these couplings are often used when building custom 3D printers for those same reasons. With this method interfacing anything at all to a motor shaft becomes mostly a matter of ...