Posted under Project Spotlights on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
Last week we received a model 500MDXU Falk mixer drive from Portland Brewing Company. The low speed upper bearing unit had failed and they needed it fixed right away. Our team quickly set into getting it torn down. We assessed the damage, ordered bearings & seals for next day air delivery, and got to work! […]
Posted under Products/Services, Project Spotlights on Monday, February 24th, 2014
At Mar-Dustrial we stock thousands of parts as inventory. For years we’ve been working with vendors world-wide providing us with a comprehensive network of resources for our customers. Today we’d like to highlight a spare part we bought a couple of months ago from a cement plant. A gear reducer, model #485A3-CS. This reducer can […]
Posted under Machinery Maintenance, Products/Services, Project Spotlights on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Check out the intense repair the Mar-Dustrial team has been working on for the last several weeks. You will notice a great improvement! This 2080Y2 Falk Parallel Shaft Reducer was in pretty bad shape when received at our Portland, OR shop. The shaft reducer was shipped in from Minnesota for some TLC. Here you can […]
Posted under Machinery Maintenance, Project Spotlights on Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Mar-Dustrial specializes in making old gear reducers just like new. The gear reducer repair project below was no small feat, but we were up for the challenge. This was a gear reducer located at a paper mill in the Northwest section of Portland. The repair needed to be done for an annual shutdown at the […]
Posted under Machinery Maintenance, Project Spotlights on Monday, August 26th, 2013
The team at Mar-Dustrial recently revived a 12.5 GRF FALK Gearbox that had been stored outside since its last repair nine years ago. The methods used to prep the unit for storage were only good for one year indoors and six months outdoors, so after nine years outside you can imagine the condition this unit […]
