Rather than some kind of lubricant. Why not have the gears coated. We use
different kinds of coatings on our tooling at work sure does help with tool
life. Don't know what a new set of gears cost you, but the cost of coating
might be about equal plus longer life. As for the soap idea, hey that's not
to far off! We use to use what amounted to dish washing liquid and water to
lubricate stainless steel conveyors for glass bottles. This stuff is real
slippery when wet and doesn't take much to make a film. Just if it dries, it
is hard as a rock and you will have to wet it good to break it lose.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Hammond" <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
To: "land-speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Dry Spray lubricant's?
> 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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