Road-going trommel uses Baldor-Dodge bearings
Stelex Construction Equipment have standardized on Baldor-Dodge Imperial ISN-mounted spherical roller bearings for their new HT182M road-going trommel, which was launched at Hillhead 2010.
One of the major features of the new machine is deployment flexibility, thanks to the design's incorporation of a low-loader trailer. Aside from deployment flexibility, one of Stelex’s key design parameters for the new trommel was ease of on-site maintenance. The company therefore chose to standardize on Dodge Imperial ISN bearings for all of the machine’s main rotational load-bearing parts. These bearings use a patented thin wall push-pull adapter system which can be either metric or imperial sizes and achieves clearance setting without the use of feeler gauges; the bearing can be installed or uninstalled simply by turning a locknut clockwise or anticlockwise.
Richard Evans, Stelex’s managing director, commented: ‘Every Dodge Imperial ISN bearing does what it says on the box – it can be installed and uninstalled in less than 15 minutes. What’s more, the bearings can be fitted without specialist tools and are supplied pre-lubricated and fully sealed, making them perfect for on-site maintenance purposes. Not that they need replacing very often – we are getting in excess of 10,000h service, which is a very good figure, especially given the aggressive operating environment. We currently use 90mm Dodge Imperial ISN bearings – there are eight of these on the HT182M, which are contained in ISN pillow blocks – but we are also looking at using the 140mm models on larger trommels in development.’
Baldor UK Ltd, Mint Motion Centre, 6 Bristol Distribution Park, Hawkley Drive, Bristol BS32 0BF; tel: (01454) 850000.
One of the major features of the new machine is deployment flexibility, thanks to the design's incorporation of a low-loader trailer. Aside from deployment flexibility, one of Stelex’s key design parameters for the new trommel was ease of on-site maintenance. The company therefore chose to standardize on Dodge Imperial ISN bearings for all of the machine’s main rotational load-bearing parts. These bearings use a patented thin wall push-pull adapter system which can be either metric or imperial sizes and achieves clearance setting without the use of feeler gauges; the bearing can be installed or uninstalled simply by turning a locknut clockwise or anticlockwise.
Richard Evans, Stelex’s managing director, commented: ‘Every Dodge Imperial ISN bearing does what it says on the box – it can be installed and uninstalled in less than 15 minutes. What’s more, the bearings can be fitted without specialist tools and are supplied pre-lubricated and fully sealed, making them perfect for on-site maintenance purposes. Not that they need replacing very often – we are getting in excess of 10,000h service, which is a very good figure, especially given the aggressive operating environment. We currently use 90mm Dodge Imperial ISN bearings – there are eight of these on the HT182M, which are contained in ISN pillow blocks – but we are also looking at using the 140mm models on larger trommels in development.’
Baldor UK Ltd, Mint Motion Centre, 6 Bristol Distribution Park, Hawkley Drive, Bristol BS32 0BF; tel: (01454) 850000.
