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Inexpensive Methods to Measure the Performance Characteristics of a Linear Motion Device

December 1, 2013
This article describes a series of tests that can be performed by the average user, with little experience, and without sophisticated measuring instruments, to quickly determine the most important performance characteristics of linear motion systems.