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Originally Posted by rahilm
Hi all,
Looking for some advice if anyone has seen failures like this before or has insight into the root cause, so we can prevent it from happening again. I've attached some pictures, but basically what we're seeing is the pins the planet gears rotate on begin to push out, eventually rubbing against the casing and causing large amounts of friction and seizing of the gearbox.
Pictures here:
http://imgur.com/a/hG4J0
Thanks in advance. |
Do you have a description or picture of the mechanism that these failed in?
We haven't run into this issue in any of our Versaplanetaries, but it might be because we use them in light applications for fear of overloading them.