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CASE SERIES|METALLURGY|GEAR DRIVES · COUPLINGS

IE S010RESTORATIVE REPAIR ACTS · DECEMBER 2002 — SEPTEMBER 2003

series of 4 acts

Gears and gear couplings: tooth body grew in service, no-load current dropped

Tooth body built up on all units, pitting disappeared, drive idle current dropped. 0.05–0.95 mm — tooth body thickness of gear pairs and couplings, 320–450 h of service; 4.9–20 % — no-load current of the drives, 8.2 → 7.8 A on the lathe and 75 → 60 A on the hammer (2003).

KGGMK Krivorozhstal — UGM forge shop, steel structures shop, SPTs-2, RMTs-2  ·  acts approved by the head of department — chief mechanic of the works V. T. Laduba, signed by the shop commissions

Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine  ·  contract No. 4626 of 28.11.2002 · treatments 05.12.2002–20.06.2003 · acts 13.02, 18.02 and 16.09.2003

PRODUCTXADO technologyrestorative repair of gear drives, couplings and cylinders
UNITS IN THE SERIESMachines of four shops of the worksM 4140 hammer · N-483 guillotine shears · mill drive and furnace pusher, SPTs-2 · 16K20 lathe
DOCUMENT TYPEFour acts of the works
signed by the shop commissions

What repeated on every machine

↑0.05–0.95mm
tooth body thickness of gear pairs and couplings, 320–450 h of service
↓4.9–20%
no-load current of the drives,8.2 → 7.8 A on the lathe and 75 → 60 A on the hammer
MACHINE, INV. No. AND SHOPTREATED ASSEMBLIESSERVICE BEFORE MEASUREMENTACT
M 4140 hammer, inv. No. 420141, UGM forge shopCompressor gearbox, compressor cylinder, bearing No. 3632over 350 h18.02.2003
N-483 guillotine shears, inv. No. 420313, TsMKMain gearbox: worm and worm wheelover 320 h13.02.2003
Billet furnace pusher and mill drive, SPTs-2Stage I gearbox, gear couplings No. 9 (N-14) and No. 3 (N-11)over 450 h16.09.2003
16K20 lathe, inv. No. 420699, RMTs-2Headstock drive gearbox300 h18.02.2003

Tooth body thickness — comparison across machines

MACHINEPART AND MEASUREMENT POINTBEFORE, mmAFTER, mmGAIN, mm
M 4140 hammerCompressor gearbox gear wheel, three points10.35–10.7510.40–10.80+0.05
M 4140 hammerCompressor gearbox pinion shaft, three points10.50–10.6010.60–10.65+0.05–0.10
N-483 shearsWorm sector of the main gearbox18.619.05+0.45
N-483 shearsWorm wheel tooth, measurement depth 15 mm16.117.05+0.95
Furnace pusher, SPTs-2Stage I herringbone gear tooth, module 8 mm, depth 6.00 mm10.2510.65+0.40
Coupling No. 9 (N-14), SPTs-2External tooth, measurement depth 12.00 mm14.6015.40+0.80
Coupling No. 9 (N-14), SPTs-2Internal tooth, measurement depth 12.00 mm14.5015.40+0.90
Coupling No. 3 (N-11), SPTs-2External tooth, measurement depth 12.00 mm13.4014.30+0.90
Coupling No. 3 (N-11), SPTs-2Internal tooth, measurement depth 12.00 mm13.5014.35+0.85

Measurements at marked points at a fixed depth — before the repair and again after the service hours; in SPTs-2 with a ShZN-18 No. 1741 gear tooth caliper.

No-load current of the drives

MACHINEMEASUREMENTBEFORE, AAFTER, A
M 4140 hammerCompressor gearbox drive, phases A and C7560
N-483 shearsMain gearbox drive, all phases4544
16K20 latheHeadstock drive, phase by phase8.2–9.47.8–8.5

Measured at no load before the repair and after the service hours; on the SPTs-2 furnace pusher gearbox the current was not measured.

M 4140 hammer — compressor cylinder and bearing

ASSEMBLYPARAMETERBEFOREAFTERCHANGE
Compressor cylinderInner diameter, point a690.08 mm689.88 mm−0.20 mm
Compressor cylinderInner diameter, point b690.17 mm689.75 mm−0.42 mm
Bearing No. 3632Radial clearance0.15 mm0.10 mm−0.05 mm

The cylinder diameter decreased owing to the layer built up on the wall: wall thickness gain of 0.20 and 0.42 mm.

What the shop commissions recorded

All four acts were signed not right after the treatment but after service hours — from 300 to 450 hours of operation. Act on the N-483 guillotine shears: “The working surface of the worm mating with the gear wheel took on the appearance of a smooth polished surface (i.e. the pits disappeared), a cermet layer formed on the working surface that cannot be worked with a smooth file. The thickness of the sector body was 19.05 mm (an increase of 0.45 mm)”. Act on SPTs-2: “the pits on the contact surface disappeared, the tooth thickness was 10.65 mm at a depth of 6.00mm (the gain in tooth body thickness was 0.40mm)”. Teeth that before the work were pitted over 60–80 % of their surface built up metal right in service, and the drives became lighter in no-load current.

Current equivalent

How such units are treated: Gear driveCompressorBearings

About this result: Clearances and backlashPower consumption

Limits of this report: The results refer to the gear drives, couplings and drives of the listed machines of KGGMK Krivorozhstal at 300–450 hours of service; on other equipment and duty cycles the figures may differ. The work was performed by CJSC Krivbassrudprom under contract No. 4626 of 28.11.2002.

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