Urethane roller coaster wheels and custom core fabrication services are available at Plan Tech, whether retreading worn out existing cores or for OEM applications. Plan Tech recently doubled the urethane grinding capability for urethane roller coaster wheels. Most applications demand a 70A urethane material due to it being slightly harder than a car tire yet firm enough to carry immense loads while absorbing vibrations or track mismatch.
Custom cores are also available and we also offer secondary operations on aluminum castings before production. Each core or casting will have a machined groove for added bonding surface and a positive lock against side abrasion and tire flex. Plan Tech has a specialized clean room to de-grease each casting before being media blasted. A light coat of bonding agent will be applied where the urethane will be directly open cast onto.
After each of the urethane roller coaster wheels are machined within tolerance each one will also be inspected to ensure fitment. Any hardness urethane roller coaster wheels can be achieved at Plan Tech with a variety of different additives for special applications, our most popular additives is an antistatic urethane additive which will discharge all electricity that would build up around the wheel during operation.
Our engineering department can turn your idea, sketch, drawing or CAD file into custom urethane roller coaster wheels. We will reverse engineer to recreate any urethane part for production or one-off urethane pieces. The engineering department utilizes SolidWorks and our machine shop uses CamWorks for 3 axis milling. Our equipment includes CNC mills, lathes, polyurethane grinders as well as a state of the art urethane waterjet cutting machine. Secondary equipment includes sheet metal, welding, grinding, automated cutoff, broaching and more. We offer complete manufacturing capability for the inserts or cores required for urethane roller coaster wheels, urethane rollers, wheels, bearings and all of your custom urethane parts.
Please Contact us for further details or to answer your urethane roller coast wheels design questions!