Six steps to select the right guide for your mill
You do not need to know guides before you talk to us. Follow the six steps below, send what you have, and we do the judging, the drawing and the quotation.
Selection process
Six steps, from your mill to a quotation. Give us whatever you have at each step — you never need all six at once.
Mill and stand
Your mill type and stand position decide the guide form.
You give: mill type, stand number, a photo of the stand or line
Speed and stock
Line speed decides roller or sliding design, and whether water cooling is needed.
You give: line speed, bar or section size
Pass and groove
The guide has to match your pass — send the drawing or the worn part and we check the groove and alignment.
You give: pass drawing or worn part
Material and hardness
Chosen for your wear pattern and duty, not copied from a catalogue.
You give: wear pattern, current service life
Cooling and mounting
Whether there is a water circuit, and whether the mounting must interchange with the OEM part.
You give: mounting dimensions or OEM number
Drawing and quotation
We confirm the drawing with you first, then send price, lead time and MOQ.
We give: drawing, selection advice, formal quotation
You do not need all six at once. Send the mill type and stand number you already have, and we take the judgement, the drawing and the quotation from there.
Talk to an engineer about my millTechnical notes
Plain-language reading on guides, boxes, twist guides and line faults — written for your engineers, not for a catalogue. Open an article, or forward the link to your team.
Rolling mill guides: types, materials and selection
A guide out of alignment for twenty minutes can stop a bar mill for two hours.
Read the noteGuide box types: static, roller and slit
A bar misses the pass line by half a millimetre, folds, and fills the floor in three seconds.
Read the noteRoller twister guides in rolling mills
Twist guides keep the line running smoothly and hold the twist angle stable at speed.
Read the noteRoller guides or sliding guides: how to choose
Roller guides cut friction and protect the surface.
Read the noteGuide troubleshooting: cobbles, scratches and broken rolls
Most faults blamed on the guide are not material faults.
Read the noteGuide cooling and maintenance: getting the full service life
Most guides that fail early do not fail because of the material.
Read the noteThese are the open ones — the full set lives on the notes page. Need a specific topic? Just ask by email.
More technical notesFrom the field
Four problems we see most. The faults that come back again and again on the line — and what to check first.
Guide out of alignment
Cobbles and scratched stock usually trace back to the pass line drifting, not to the guide material. Check alignment and clearance before replacing parts.
The box, not the guide
The guide looks fine, but the box holding it is no longer square. Inspect the box first, then change the guide.
Cooling neglected
A blocked water circuit raises temperature, softens wear faces and halves service life. Flushing the circuit on schedule is cheaper than upgrading the material.
Clearance guessed
Clearances set by eye instead of to drawing cost more in scrap than a set of gauges.
More often than not these are not material problems — they are alignment, clearance and cooling problems.
If one of these is happening on your line, send the symptoms and a photo. An engineer will tell you what to check before you change any parts.
Ask an engineer about my lineSend us the problem from the line
Attach a photo and the operating conditions, and our engineers will come back with an assessment.