A plastics company contacted Decatur Industrial Electric for our expertise in repairing a failing gearbox which also needed modified in order to fit an application. The OEM had estimated 8 weeks for the repair turn-around time and the customer needed it sooner.
The gearbox was suffering from bearing failure, seal damage, gear wear, and other costly issues.
Decatur Industrial was awarded the repair and completely rebuilt and modified the gearbox, with the goal of extending its life. Some of what we did included:
1. Relocation of the mounting holes
2. Rerunning of the oil feed lines
3. Removal of oil troughs in order to go from fling oil system to a force feed oil system
4. Installation of new piping for oil scrubber
5. Rebuild of oil cooler and oil cooler pump
Our full-service machine shop also modified it from a vertical position to a horizontal position, as seen in the final “after” picture below. This customer was saved approximately 6 weeks of additional repair time. Plus, since they didn’t have to get on an airplane to go down to the OEM, the customer was able to visit their equipment and follow the progress more closely, which was important to them.
