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Category Archives: Machinery Maintenance
Importance of Motor Shaft Alignment to Preserve F Couplings
Although a Falk F coupling is known for its ability to tolerate misalignment, it’s critical to keep your couplings operating within acceptable design limits. By optimizing motor shaft alignment, you can help preserve the life of your F coupling as … Continue reading
Soft Foot: How it Impacts Falk Coupling Alignment
When even one foot of a gearbox differs in height from the others, you’ve got a case of soft foot on your hands. Soft foot occurs when the machine’s casing is not in proper contact with its baseplate. Unless it … Continue reading
Industry Spotlight: Falk Gearboxes for Gold Mining Facilities
Mining applications demand the toughest machinery. Heavy loads and rugged, dirty environments require impenetrable, high-torque gear reducers to keep operations humming along. That’s why we recommend Falk gearboxes for mining facilities such as Round Mountain Gold Mine in Nevada. Within … Continue reading
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The Role of Service Factor in Avoiding Gearbox Repair
There are many different factors to consider when choosing the right size and type of gearbox for your application – from gear drive rating and speed variation to thermal capacity and drive ratio. Ignore any of these, and you could … Continue reading
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Why Falk Long Term Grease is Best for T Couplings
Keeping your Steelflex T couplings properly lubricated is a key step in ensuring a long life and optimal performance. The most common coupling lubricant is grease, which consists of a base oil and a thickener. In ideal conditions, the oil … Continue reading
Falk Gearbox Lubrication: 4 Things You Need to Know
When it comes to maintaining a Falk gear reducer, staying on top of lubrication is one of the most critical things you can do to ensure a long operating life. Not only does lube keep the machinery running smoothly, but … Continue reading
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Surplus Gear Reducers: How to Replace an Obsolete Gearbox
Technology is changing so rapidly that by the time a gear reducer reaches the end of its life, it’s not uncommon to discover that it has become obsolete. This is particularly common in the pulp and paper industry. In some … Continue reading
Why a Parallel Shaft Reducer is Easy to Maintain
Aside from its ability to handle high-torque applications, one of the biggest benefits a Falk parallel shaft reducer brings to the table is its highly efficient design, which makes maintenance easy. As any engineer or maintenance technician knows, careful upkeep … Continue reading
Replacing Your Falk Gear Reducer: How to Ensure the Right Fit
When a gear drive fails, it’s not always possible to find an exact replacement. In these situations, engineers are confronted with the task of finding a comparable Falk gearbox that not only meets the requirements of the application but is … Continue reading
Setting Your Falk Gearbox for Success
When it comes to industrial power transmission equipment, the more you can do upfront to prevent costly failures down the road, the better. Selecting the right Falk gearbox for a given application is only half the battle; how a Falk … Continue reading