Hi Keith,
What about rigging a cover/guard then using whatever lube you want without
contamination? You can get brownie points for the safety thing too.
As for dry lubes; in bulk/bigger bottles what about graphite powder?
Cheers,
Rick
Lots of little fish...sardines?
Keith Turk wrote:
> Anyone out there know of a quality Dry spray lubrication for gears?
>
> Here is my problem.... I have a 1/2 Yard concrete mixer that never gets
> turned off.... so the big drum gear and the little countershaft gear wearout
> regularly..... like one every 6 months.... what my thoughts right now are to
> convert it to a belt drive as it's much less susciptable to wear but to do
> that I have to completely re-engineer the machine.... ( I've already set it
> up in my mind.... but don't have time right this minute )
>
> Just thought maybe our collective knowledge might have a semi temporary
> solution....
>
> Grease doesn't work by the way as it attracts sand which wears the gears
> even faster
>
> TIA Keith
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