I have really enjoyed all these different ideas.... amazing how semi sharp
some of you are... My favorites are the off list reply's..... like just add
peanut butter and eat the dang thing....
But I think the honest answer is multiphase.... first get it up again with
the new gear set.... then use a dry spray from one of several companies that
my web search netted.... ( mike I can't find your south Carolina company )
THEN to prove the worth of coating's Russ Meeks is going to coat it and cook
it .... then I am going to continue to dry spray the gear set.
The interesting part of all this exercise is how little it has to do with
racing but how many of you responded to an honest outside the scope request
for general information..... it just shows what a quality group of yahoo's
you really are..... Except of course Dave.... we chatted this morning and
he was trying to figure out how to take the Temp of the unit while it was on
the go and then figure out if he could convert it to a Rotary set up with
multiport oil injection timed of course by a Motec box.... ( okay his real
answer was a quality gear box eliminateing the gears entirely... which would
only cost about as much as 3 sets of gears .... Trust me this actually
scares me cause it makes to much sense )
I'll let you know how it turns out.... and by the way... for all non
concerned parties... the Vibrator is working fine and it's actual REAL deal
replacement is on the way....
Keith ( why yes running a manufactuering facility can be as much fun as
racing so long as you don't take it seriously.... LOL... )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Dry Spray lubricant's?
> 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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