Worm gearboxes are an inexpensive way to provide high, single reduction gear ratios for machine drives and conveyors. They are most often used in food processing equipment and often placed in deep inside the machinery or overhead.
This inaccessibility makes maintenance difficult. Disposable gearboxes were installed. Instead of throwing away the gearboxes, however, the plant switched lubricants to the Molykote L-1146FG.
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Food Plant Disposable Gearbox gets 350 percent lifetime increase with Food-Grade synthetic worm-gear oil.
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