Keith,
After considering the virtues of lubricants and belt drives I've struck
upon a simple idea that may work for your machine. How about running water
over the gears?? This would continuously flush away dirt and grit while
providing some cooling.
Worried about the water bill? How about a simple pump system that
recirculates the same water in a tank, allowing the silt to settle out
before the water is pumped out again. Add some fake rock waterfalls and you
can call it landscaping!
Chuck Rothfuss
Pole Cat Hollow, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:41 AM
Subject: Dry Spray lubricant's?
> 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 )
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