Hello Lyn, are there any books you would recommend for a newbie. I have taken over an area with lots of chutes and conveyors, we have very sticky material. I have been reading a lot of the posts already and downloaded PDF's to gain a rapid understanding of chute design and flow of solids. Are there any technical papers i can get hold of to further enhance this learning.

I am also looking to attend acouple of seminars from TUNRA and David Beckley, as there are a lot of self professed experts, if i can learn the basics and use some uncommon sense then i think we may get some where.

Thanks for your help ■

Anything you buy or order/ request from the CEMA or VSMA folks about conveyors are bibles for solids handling. The "Van Gorp" pulley people are a mother load of material as well.

I was involved with surface and underground conveyors/screens feeders/of all types for 22 years but it all on the job experience involving theshoveling and greasing, installation, alignment, belt training, belt splicing, replacing idlers and main components such as drive/driven gear change outs, drive chain replacement, electric motor and reduction gear change outs, replacing/welding pulley lagging sections, bearing replacments and installation of bearings on pulley shafts, installing replaceement pulleys on drive and driven shafts.

Realising a conveyor belt is a linear functioning item and gravity is the enemy is the first step as everything proceeds forward from the tail pulley.

Understanding that cable supported belts and steel supported belts are different animals is number two.

If you train a belt you must start at the tail pulley first that is one of the golden rules CEMA taught me. ■

Dear Mr.Izaharis,

I have gone through few books and practised at site also.

Tracking ( belt training ) from tail pulley should be the last, if could not be avoided, option.

The reason is that the endless lengths at both edges of the belt may be altered when we try to adjust the tail pulley. This may cause the joint weak and also cause different tension among cords.

Waiting for experts comments. ■

Thanks Izaharis,

You can gain so many insights just by reading the posts by a few key people to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I have had a brief look at the CEMA site and Lyn has sent me some docs to look through.

I have put my uni studies on hold for a year while i concentrate my efforts to turning this area around as we are slowly turning the Queen Mary around (reactive to proactive).

Pesty ■

If you are using a belt training idler at every ten idlers that will not happen if the splices are square; saying that does not discount stretched out belting though. ■

Dear Mr.Izharis,

I am not from design. We are noy using one belt training idler at every ten idlers. We use them only when and where required.

Is there any standard recommondation? ■

Greetings and salutations SGanesh,

When I was working with the continental folks on our belts underground they always told us to have one training idler for every ten troughing idlers as a matter of principal operation. ■

On the tail pulley- I ment the idlers coming forward from the pulley frame (the idlers on the cables or the steel stands) and not physically adjusting the tail pulley frame with the turnbuckles itself as it would really screw things up by taking things out of the centerline

I apologise for that I should have been more clear regarding this issue. ■

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