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Gears & Pinions

Industrial Kiln & Dryer Group will design new, reverse engineer, or engineer upgrades to your gearing requirements.

Whether you supply us drawings or give us your operational requirements, we have the engineering horsepower to meet or exceed the original OEM specification. Our team has engineered hundreds of drive systems over the decades and have experienced a multitude of conditions and environments that give us the "know how,"  of not only what to do, but what not to do. We have both domestic and international supplier partners.

gear and pinion

gear collage

Gear Capabilities

  • Up to 32’ diameter
  • AGMA from 6-14 depending on requirement
  • Spur or Helical
  • All different types of mounting arrangements
    • Side Lugs
    • Spring Leafs
    • Flange Ring
    • Other Custom

Pinion Capabilities

  • AGMA from 6-12 dependingon requirement
  • All different types of mounting arrangements and gear styles Helical or Spur

Pinions

Common Issues

  • Accelerated or uneven wear
  • Teeth pitting, breakage
  • Increased noise and vibration
  • Insufficient or improper lubrication
  • Contaminated lubricants
  • Insufficient protection from dirt, dust, product and debris
  • Pinion misalignment - poor contact, too much or too little backlash and root clearance, poor longitudinal relationship of the gear to pinion
  • Drive misalignment - couplings, drive components, and drive base misalignment
  • Gear misalignment - Axial and Radial
  • Insufficient protection from dirt, dust, product and debris
  • Loose splice joints, missing, loose or damaged splice hardware
  • Gear mounting failures - loose, missing or broken mounting fasteners, pins; cracks, weld failures

What We Need To Know

  • What type of equipment?
  • Kiln / Dryer / Ball Mill / Other
  • Face width
  • Operating speed of unit, RPM (and/or what range the unit is operated in)
  • Current Issue
  • Current Gear Mounting System
  • Current Pinion Mounting
  • Drum to Face of Gear
  • Quantity of Teeth (Gear & Pinion)
  • Horsepower / RPM of Drive Motor
  • Distance from the pinion shaft centerline to the edge of the shell.
  • Distance from the tooth tip centerline to the edge of the shell.
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