According to Shane Rock, Oceania Region General Manager for Regal Rexnord, the way couplings perform under severe-duty conditions can make or break a drive system. “There are many variables to consider when selecting a coupling arrangement for a piece of mining equipment,” he says. “Their torque...
“Ensuring a pump system is fitted with the right coupling components is critical to the performance of the application, as any heavy vibrations and loads can cause cracks and fractures on drive equipment,” explains Troy Markland, National Product Manager for Chain and Ironware at Motion...
A dragline is like a giant walking shovel – using a boom arm, large buckets and rigged wires, it serves to hoist large volumes of raw material from inside a pit to the above-ground pile. While many draglines on Australian sites have been in service...
Did you know that the average Australian home uses about 14 cubic metres of structural pine? According to Simon Gatt, Resources Manager at Associated Kiln Driers (AKD), this wood stores carbon for the duration of the structure’s lifetime, making timber a valuable renewable resource with...
It’s not every day that an impromptu opportunity comes along for CBC to help out the community. So, when an Adelaide local school was unable to host their annual fundraiser due to an engineering roadblock, CBC’s Tony Voiklis stepped up to keep things rolling. To read the full article, please click here....
A couple of days before Christmas, CBC was approached by a customer who had experienced a sudden breakdown on their mine winder, the hoisting application they were running underground. “The mine winder is usually located in a shed nearby the recognisable scaffolded tower operation that runs the cables,”...
The Rexnord Falk Steelflex couplings house tapered grids that are constructed from high-strength alloy steel, and are quenched, and tempered to spring hardness. The grid surface is then precision shot peened. This precision technology was originally used in the production of sophisticated aircraft components, according to Steve Hittmann, CBC’s National Product Manager for Mechanical Drive...
“Joining two aligning shafts on a slurry pump is very difficult to do without any deflection and misalignment,” explains CBC’s expert on Power Transmission, Troy Markland. Troy recommends the Fenner FenaFlexTM Tyre Coupling for this particular application. “Fenner® power transmission products have a long history in the mining sector,” says Troy. “From...
Troy Markland knows power transmission like the back of his hand. He has been in the industry for almost 40 years and has managed Fenner’s range of power transmission products since CBC became a supplier for them in 2011. According to Troy, Fenner’s range is unmatched...
