Application Profile SF Type Gear Spindles Mine Rope Shovels Product Application P-8514-AC 1/19 A global mine rope shovel manufacturer required a robust replacement coupling solution that could accommodate a high degree of misalignment due to the deflection that occurs as the massive machines twist and flex during loading, unloading and rotating. The large electric shovels, weighing over 860 tons, with payload capacities over 120 tons, remove overburden and minerals including coal, and load it into haul trucks at large open pit strip mines around the world. The couplings are installed on drive motors that operate the shovel’s propulsion, crowd, swing, and dipper/bucket hoist winches. The OEM consulted with Ameridrives engineers to help solve the deflection/misalignment problem

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