The various elaborate descriptions cry for drawings and photos that show exactly what is being described.

Joe Dos Santos ■

Hi Joe,

You are so right. It is relatively easy to attach drawings and photos. And if someone has problems, contact me and I will try to help with uploading.

Reinhard Wohlbier

Administrator ■

I would like to add some points and disagree with one particular point.

Adjusting pulleys should be off limits as a means of training a conveyor belt. Crowning and lagging non-drive crowned pulleys is effective in belt training but pulleys should always be level and square with the belt line. Skewing pulleys to train the belt puts damaging edge stresses on the belt. This is detrimental, unlike the gentle frictional urging of skewing the idlers to train the belt.

Final training of a new belt should be after four to eight hours of run-in time.

Misalignment at a given point is due to an upstream cause and the training adjustment for this should begin upstream from the misalignment point.

Joe Dos Santos ■

Hi Joe

You are wasting your valuable time replying to uchconveyor or conveyor01 (same person). This person is a spammer from China that simply C&P's another article (most time not even relevant to the thread) and then adds embedded links to their website in the post. Then one of us must edit the post and remove the links.

I believe Reinhard already banned conveyor01. It may be time to ban uchconveyor. I have given him/her numerous warnings to stop.

Have a good day Joe. ■

Originally Posted by conveyor01

conveyor belt tracker

MARTIN® TRACKER Belt Tracking Systems

Keeps the belt In alignment with automatic, continuous adjustments. (shown Lower Unit-left, Upper Unit-right)

Continuous Belt Alignment

Improved tracking reduces edge damage, spillage, and maintenance expense.

Works Where Other Belt Tracking fail

Continuous precision adjustment of the patented parallel steering / training system keeps the belt tracking perfectly.

Guaranteed to Keep Your Belt on Track

Follow our recommendations for installation and maintenance of a complete system, and Martin Engineering guarantees perfect tracking forever.

Offset Units Available

Systems for offset idlers are available. Lower units require only an adapter kit; upper units require special unit.

MARTIN® Transfer Points are custom-engineered by Martin Engineering to eliminate blockages, reduce impact, centralize loading and guarantee the material flow rate.

Martin Engineering makes bulk materials handling cleaner, safer and more productive, with engineered systems including conveyor belt cleaners, conveyor load zone/transfer point chutes, impact cradles and slider beds, skirtboard sealing systems, air-supported belt conveyors, air cannons, pneumatic (air) and electric industrial/bin/railcar/truck vibrators, belt training/alignment devices, dust suppression/collection/control systems, and specialized contract services including installation/maintenance and silo/bin/bunker cleaning.

Originally Posted by Joseph A. Dos Santos

The various elaborate descriptions cry for drawings and photos that show exactly what is being described.

Joe Dos Santos

Originally Posted by Gary Blenkhorn

Hi Joe

You are wasting your valuable time replying to uchconveyor or conveyor01 (same person). This person is a spammer from China that simply C&P's another article (most time not even relevant to the thread) and then adds embedded links to their website in the post. Then one of us must edit the post and remove the links.

I believe Reinhard already banned conveyor01. It may be time to ban uchconveyor. I have given him/her numerous warnings to stop.

Have a good day Joe.

It is interesting to see spamers using our stuff, that is a new one. Yes, we do have a Tracker, and it is shown here. The main difference between it and alignment idlers is the fact that the belt wander sensor is downstream and it is set on a linkage so that a small amount of wander will rotate the steering idler a great deal. This allows a quicker response.

The actual product can be seen here.

http://www.martin-eng.com/products/t...n-tracker.html

I actually like to spend more of my time fixing the problems that cause mistracking in the first place. There are numerous things that can go wrong with a belt, and if those are fixed, the belt runs more true and the trackers do not have to work unless there is an upset.

There are many great clues to the causes of your mistracking issue in Chapter 16 of the Foundations book. You can either download a pdf or request a hard copy.

http://www.martin-eng.com/page/foundations-book

Dan Marshall ■