Conveyor Idler Maintenance Strategy bulkonline Forums
Dec 05, 2004· I am revising some old maintenance strategies for this site. One of these is conveyor idler maintenance. Our trunk conveyors, some 4km of them, run at over 5m/s. We currently use steel rollers as troughing idlers and return idlers. These currently are run to failure and appear to last about 3 years before the bearings give up. Every week there are about 30 50 odd rollers identified for ...