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Possible de-alignment of flywheel at Arbtrak190?


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21 minutes ago, swinny said:

****************  me. I thought I had some animals work for  me before but that's the 2023 award for worst chipper disc surely.

 

Not surprised bearings are shot

The edges chip off when the front bearing fails and the disks ‘tickle’ the anvil…

@Mike Hill - that front bearing mounting is the same design as the 1928 machines. I’ve been running those for ever, and still have a 2005 machine with well over 3000 hours on it now (which goes out working most weeks). I’ve never had any issues with structural part of these chippers, the design works well. 

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Just now, monkeybusiness said:

The edges chip off when the front bearing fails and the disks ‘tickle’ the anvil…

@Mike Hill - that front bearing mounting is the same design as the 1928 machines. I’ve been running those for ever, and still have a 2005 machine with well over 3000 hours on it now (which goes out working most weeks). I’ve never had any issues with structural part of these chippers, the design works well. 

 

Ok, so finally the assumption is something unwanted (stone, metal piece, whatsoever shitty...) got into, shaked the whole flywheel shaft so heavily that at least the front bearing broke, one knife hit the anvil, the others not however. If you are sitting in front of 2~3 meter high hills of bushes and branches, I suppose it just happened that we throw in something that shaked the whole construction so much. Either we were lucky or the Arbtrak is just so sturdy, but I can remember that we chipped 5~10 minutes after hearing that strange sound and only then turned the machine down.

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43 minutes ago, Soeren said:

 

Ok, so finally the assumption is something unwanted (stone, metal piece, whatsoever shitty...) got into, shaked the whole flywheel shaft so heavily that at least the front bearing broke, one knife hit the anvil, the others not however. If you are sitting in front of 2~3 meter high hills of bushes and branches, I suppose it just happened that we throw in something that shaked the whole construction so much. Either we were lucky or the Arbtrak is just so sturdy, but I can remember that we chipped 5~10 minutes after hearing that strange sound and only then turned the machine down.

I think the foreign object is a red herring - we’ve accidentally chipped all sorts of nasty stuff over the years (plenty of steel rebar etc) and it doesn’t tend to destroy bearings (not immediately anyway). The bearing being worn and failing will have caused the flywheel gap to alter which will have caused the metallic sound you heard as the blades struck the anvil in use - this contact will have mullered your blades. 
That’s what I reckon anyway!

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