Airend Components Air Compressor Technology, Inc. stocks gear sets for most commonly used airends. Our large inventory of new and used OEM gears as well as quality aftermarket... products not only allows us to assemble a wide variety of exchange airends, but offers the compressor distributor a solution to high factory prices and availability problems. Air.... We use and supply kits including top name brands with quality you can trust Air Compressor Technology, Inc. manufactures a wide variety of components for rotary vane compressors...

through the airend, the rotors will become extremely hot, lose their critical discharge end clearances and seize as in the following photo. Notice the bluing of both rotors and dry... compressed air. (Lubricant is also required to seal the rotors to each other and to the airend castings.) 2. There is no hot air blowing from the oil cooler. Normally, within very few... the lubricant reaches operating temperature. Heat should be present throughout this pipework.) 4. The discharge end of my airend is getting very hot. Don t rely on oil temp shutdown...

airends are designed to maintain set clearances between the drive and pinion (driven) gear. As any of several drive end bearings wear, these clearances open up, and can cause... on the discharge end of the male rotor. Notice the burnt marks on the near face of the gear from contact with the gearcase. As the thrust bearings wore, the male rotor pushed away... from the discharge end housing, bringing the gear with it. The discoloration on the inner race of the cylindrical roller bearing and the wear pattern on the driven gear also...

, sealing to a steel or ceramic stationary seat in the housing. Compressors with total closure (air tight) air inlet valves typically used these relatively expensive seals because... mechanical seal is accompanied by a jingling sound from the drive end. This might point to a broken seal spring. These coil springs are responsible for pushing the rotating seal up... for a new seal here, and hurry before the seal components get into the drive end bearings, creating another set of problems! Mechanical seals can handle more shaft runout than lip seals...

be much higher in certain spots. Mechanical shearing of complex molecules used in oil additive packages, and the constant mixing with contaminants in the inlet air all contribute... shaft and gear assembly, note the solid clump of varnished oil standing on end. Varnish had built up a half inch thick in several places, totally plugging some oil injection ports...