Bearing Condition Monitoring: Vibration, Temperature and Lubrication Checks
A gearbox bearing on the night shift runs a few degrees warmer than it did last month. Nothing has failed and...
A gearbox bearing on the night shift runs a few degrees warmer than it did last month. Nothing has failed and...
A gantry router builder running a 1.2 m long, 40 mm ball screw at 2,500 rpm called after six weeks of two-shi...
An AGV stops mid-aisle because a load wheel bearing has seized. The vehicle is carrying a 1,200 kg pallet, an...
Planting windows do not wait for maintenance. When a row-unit seeder starts dragging halfway across a field, ...
A 25 mm shaft that measures 24.990 mm, dropped into a housing bore that measures 25.020 mm, leaves a gap of 0...
An H7 hole and a p6 shaft at a 25 mm nominal size give you between 1 and 35 microns of interference. That sin...
A 15 kW motor running at 6,000 rpm should not be destroying lip seals every eight months. When it does, the s...
A conveyor drive at a foundry ran for eight months before the bearings failed. The original setup used rubber...
An inspector mics a 30 mm shaft at 30.018 mm. The drawing calls for 30 mm nominal, and the question on the be...
A dry seal on a 6205-2RS bearing pulled from a gearbox is a familiar sight on the maintenance bench. The inst...
A bore called out as 25 H7 must measure between 25.000 mm and 25.021 mm. A hole that comes off the machine at...
A 40 mm journal comes off the grinder at 39.982 mm and the operator calls it good, because it is only 0.018 m...