Dear Mofidi,

Looks like you tore or punctured it just inside or under one skirt. This will have to be considered when applying the repair. Standard belt clamps can further damage the skirts and cause unacceptable spillage if you try to remove the skrts. It may be possible and beneficial to move the skrt outboard of the tear zone.

I suggest you consider modifying the chute to prevent further mishaps.

REma TIp Top and others manufacture a cold bond cure that can, when properly prepared, reconnect the two longitudinal sections. Care must be taken to assure the two sections do not cause maltension distribution. THis will cause maltracking.

There is a procedure that must be followed to maintain cable elongation. You need a, preferably level zone and have the tension removed. It would be best to lay the belt flat to make sure both sections will be aligned when retensioned.

As a temprary measure, you can use belt fasteners from various suppliers to hold the two edges and prevent spillage. You will see and know the better products that can negotiate the bend and drive pulleys. This is a SHORT temp. measure while the 100-200m of belt are cold vulcanized per each week.

Of course, if time permits do the proper fix at one outage.

Where are you located? ■

How deep is the cut, is it all the way through the belt

Some options include Laying Rema tip top repair band over the cut. This could be done to the carry and return side. Cleaners will need to be backed off though

If it is on the carry side only - a Rema T-2 repair could be done

Also if it is cut all the way through you may wish to do intermittant hot repairs every 30 metres or so to hold it together and lay repair band on the return cover, this will allow you leave the cleaners on

Shane ■

Take care not to trap foreign material in the groove of the cut.

Applying the repair band on the bottom will allow small material to get trapped, will be hard to clean and will carry back on the return contaminating the whole return side, and pulley assemblies. ■

Goodday Mofidi,

It is quite apparent that your skirt was the culprit to this damage. Therefore, before you make any repair or replacement, it is better to get this culprit removed.

A cold repair is the easy way out in this case, but of course, to have better finishing, you need to ensure that the belt are laid flat on a workbench during the repair.

By the way, may I know your location/ the location of this problem?

Cheers,

Albert ■

Here is an article of a cold repair done on a steel cord belt in AZ a while back using Tip Top Cold repair materials to keep the belt running untill a replacement section could be installed hopefully this helps.

http://www.rema.com/librarychainedselect.htm#4 ■

Sorry to hear about your belt. Items to look for in the load zone that may have been the culprit:

1. Excessive belt sag due to idler spacing. This allows foreign objects or conveyed material to become trapped tearing the belt.

2. Wear liners or skirt boards incorrectly installed causing entrapment points. Ensure all metal is relieved in the direction of belt travel to prevent entrapment areas.

3. Worn out wear liners or skirt boards that create entrapment points for material or foreign objects. ■