CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

[MECMIKE]

SEVERAL CARPET BELTS HAVE BEEN
STARTING TO SLOW DOWN AND EVEN STOP MOVING
WHEN THE LANE IS FIRST TURNED ON OR PINS
ARE ON IT.I I TOOK THE PIT APART,GREASED
THE BEARING SUPPORTS,CHANGED THE CARPET DRIVE
BELT BUT THE CARPET STILL RUNS SLOW.THE ONLY
THING THAT COMES TO MIND IS MAYBE THE LANE
OIL I AM USING IS THE PROBLEM.I TRIED TO
CLEAN THE CARPETS BUT,THE ONLY THING THAT
STOPS THE PROBLEM IS TO REPLACE THE CARPET
ITSELF.HAS ANYONE ELSE COME ACROSS THIS?

[Ed Fox]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

Probably happening due to the cooler weather...is it when the seem runs around the rear roller?

Charlie [img]/content/btubb/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

[Alastair]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

remove back roller in pit.
apply belt grip to back roller and replace roller. This should help give a consistent running of the belt.

(Cant loose with a vantage premium carpet) [img]/content/btubb/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]

[shamefowjze]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

Have you tried replacing the springs for the front roller pivots? When my machines would do that it was the springs. The reason a new carpet fixing the problem is that it is not stretched out...yet.

Alex

[Pindecked]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

The spring on the drive belt tension wheel didn't pop off did it??

...........
I have one starting to do that.I keep the dates posted on the machine of when I do 'pit jobs'....this one is 10 1/2 years old( Vantage premium).

Some crappy day pretty soon,I'll just have to put a new carpet/brackets/springs etc.

The nasty part of it is that it's an end machine..( rear roller must come up thru the machine instead of sliding out under the adjacent machine [img]/content/btubb/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif[/img] )

[8270king]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

Oily carpets from 50 units in the middle.

Go to the hardware store.

Buy stair traction tape.

Remove the rear roller.

Clean it with lane cleaner.

Apply 2 1 inch strips around the roller.

Reinstall the roller.

Problem solved.

JK

[THE HAMMER]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

82/70 King has it (so did Alastair [img]/content/btubb/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img] "belt grip") we put belt grip tape on our back rollers, it works great.

NOTHING HITS LIKE A HAMMER

[Keep them running]

Re: CARPETS SLOWING DOWN

Check to make sure the front roller is not rubbing on the plank in front of it. It sounds like a streach carpet or bad spring. I go thrugh mine once a year. P.M. is the key not waiting till it breaks down.