02 March 2022
Tim Nageli, Altra Motion Global Sales Manager for Mill Products, including metal shredders, discusses how Ameridrives Couplings supports the metal/auto shredder industry with special focus on the Ameridrives repair/rebuild programs available at its facility in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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30 March 2021
A large metal recycling facility in South Carolina needed an Ameridrives U3440 U-Joint repaired quickly on its 5000 HP auto shredder. A piece of unshreddable material hit the machine’s rotating hammer, causing the U-joint’s bearing cap to fail.
24 August 2020
Ameridrives Universal Joint Rebuild and Repair Service Brochure Just Released. Ameridrives is the only American manufacturer of large universal joints up to 1300 mm in diameter with local sales and engineering support along with a comprehensive rebuild and repair program.
13 July 2020
A large steel producer was experiencing failures of the U-joints on a plate mill leveler at their Indiana plant. The mill produces 160 in. wide plates that are then cut-to-length. The 350 mm U-Joints drive a series of 6 upper and 7 lower rollers that level 2 in. to 6 in. thick steel plates as they pass through.
17 September 2018
Couplings. There certainly is no shortage of couplings — or things to couple them with. There also seems to be no lack of applications for them. You say you need to reduce the transmission of shock loads from one shaft to another? That’s a classic application for shaft couplings; but really, couplings are application-intensive. They’re everywhere.
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