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Smoking belt

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  1. Bradley Frunchak
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    4/14/2015 12:04 PM
    I have a smoking belt on one of my True surface triplex rollers.
    I installed a new belt and tensioned it. When I operate it in the shop or on the green the one belt will smoke.

    Both pulley's are turning.

    Stumped on this one



  2. John Moore
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    0 posts
    4/14/2015 1:04 PM
    You have a bearing problem. Remove the belt and the hydraulic motor so both of the shafts will rotate freely. Slowly rotate both shafts with your fingers. Anything other than a smooth roll with no binding or roughness will indicate a bad bearing on that shaft. This problem showed up quite frequently in our rollers. Mine are older models with no select-a-vibe setting so I just slowed down the reel motor speed. Seemed to help a bit.



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