Proven Gearbox Solutions Keeps Steel Forge Melting In late December 2014, we were called to go inspect the hot leveller gearbox at a steel forge in Scotland. The inspection revealed that one of the seven output pinion shafts had sheared and one other output pinion shaft teeth were damaged. All of the output drive end white metal bearings were damaged and were also oversize. Due to time and production needs, we removed the snapped shaft and the shafts white metal bearings so that the gearbox could still run with six output shafts and production could still go ahead. In early 2015, the bearings that were removed from the sheared shaft inDecember were brought back to our Middlesbrough facility for inspection. Measurements were taken of the bearings and recorded so that seven new bearings coul

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