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Running Gear Drive Repairs

When it comes to repairing the tooth flanks of large girth gear drives, repair lubrication provides a number of advantages […]

Analyzing Bearing Failure

The accurate diagnosis of a bearing failure is imperative to prevent repeat failure and additional expense. Rolling bearings are precision […]

The Benefits of Bio-Based Lubricants

If your company is interested in increasing factory throughput, reducing tool costs, and improving product quality in a safer environment, […]

A New Edge On Gear Milling

What does a new generation of indexable inserts mean to the gear manufacturing industry? Minimizing lead times in gear production […]

Synthetic Gear Lubricants Go Green

With global industry moving toward environmentally friendly “green” lubricants, some very challenging issues have been created for lubrication in gearing […]

Best-Practice Gearbox Lubrication

Modern gears are performing heavier work and carrying greater loads than ever before. Gear manufacturers are redesigning, modernizing, and using […]

Noise Reduction in Plastic Gears

Gear noise reduction is best addressed in the design phase. Establishing optimized tooth counts, ratios, pitch, pressure angle, helix angle, […]

Nanomaterials for Gear Lubrication Solutions

In this article we report on a new product, NanoLub, which is used as a performance-enhancing additive to gear lubricants […]

Gear Tooth Temperature Measurements

This paper presents the technique developed to measure the temperature on various active portions of a gear operating under load, […]

Bearing Reliability in Rebuilt Gearboxes

Fifty years of ongoing development has given SKF a bearing vibration analyzer that can probe deep into rotating bearings while […]

Lubricant Contaminants Limit Gear Life

Lubricant cleanliness refers to the absence of contamination.1 Microscopic particles are the most harmful form of contamination in lubricants. They […]

Protecting Gears in Wind Power Applications

In wind power stations, both fluid (lubricating oils) and consistent (lubricating greases) lubricants are used. The main task of the […]

Induction Heating for Low-Cost Quality Gears

The gear market is looking for increased gear performance, reduction in gearbox package size, and longer gear life. Industry drivers […]

Relative Curvature of Worm & Wheel with Straight Line Generatrix

The contact on single enveloping worm gear drives is the line contact. The changing form of the worm across the […]

Selecting the Right PFPE Lubricant

If a mechanical or electromechanical component has to function for extended periods in an extreme environment, a perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricant […]

Microgeometry and Bias in Helical Gear Noise Excitations

The prediction of gear noise may normally be treated as a classical source/path/receiver problem. Usually the excitation occurs in the […]

Direct Design for High-Performance Gear Transmissions

This paper presents a unique methodology for designing gears to enhance strength and life while allowing size and wear reduction. […]

Estimating Gear Fatigue Life

Fatigue failure of gears can lead to the catastrophic failure of equipment, taking into account that gears are important elements […]

Synthetic Lubricants for Real Results

For centuries lubricants have been utilized as a way to reduce friction and wear on moving parts. In 2005, approximately […]

Bending Fatigue of Surface Densified Gears

Surface densified powder metal gears and conventional wrought steel gears were tested using a pulsator and a back-to-back gear tester […]

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