DAPPH
as dyslexik as I'm daft
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At Powerplant I was the one who did most of the repairs to them ..usually everything was down to neglect or abuse .
Belle are good mixers even modern ones with lots of plastic parts ,. usually any problems are down to them not being serviced or they are over loaded to the point of a very thick mix coming out the barrel as it turns. Check the oil in the gear box when it is sat on the stand on level ground with the mixer sat back on the back legs , people rarely do that .
Try turning the barrel using the gear box without a belt on or with a fully slackened off belt. It should move very easily . Drain & replace the gearbox oil with the correct hypoid gear oil .
Replace the drive belt it will need rechecking for tension after a days use then every 50 hours use . Usually it's heat generated by a binding gearbox heating the belt which then slips , carries on slipping & producing more & more heat .
Regularly overloaded the barrel & chucking in massively heaped shovels of material at a time has the same effect . So does stopping the mixer with a normal load full of dry ballast , then tipping a half bag of cement in and then starting it up .
On the internet I think the Belle mix operators instructions are available .. Most folk ignore them ,
IIRC... Fill the mixer up the Belle way , get it turning add half dose water ,then half sand /gravel cement add the rest of the dose water , now add the rests of the mix . Don't over load it or get it to the point where a big slug of mix flops down across the inside of the barrel onto the ascending beater bar as it puts a heck of a stress on the gearbox , motor & fan belt.
Once you have poured out a mix give the barrel half the next dosing water , poured in down the lip wall to help wash down any stuck material off the inside of barrel . put the first half the next mix in hang fire with the cement .. letting it run like that whilst you barrow the mix away gives time for it to self clean .
A the end of the session clean the mixer using a bucket of water and five to ten shovels of gravel . mixed ballast , let it run for 20 min or so then tip it out . Don't chuck bricks and big stones in like most " Building experts ) do as again it stresses the machine and can also cause the welds on the beater bars to fatigue .
Belle are good mixers even modern ones with lots of plastic parts ,. usually any problems are down to them not being serviced or they are over loaded to the point of a very thick mix coming out the barrel as it turns. Check the oil in the gear box when it is sat on the stand on level ground with the mixer sat back on the back legs , people rarely do that .
Try turning the barrel using the gear box without a belt on or with a fully slackened off belt. It should move very easily . Drain & replace the gearbox oil with the correct hypoid gear oil .
Replace the drive belt it will need rechecking for tension after a days use then every 50 hours use . Usually it's heat generated by a binding gearbox heating the belt which then slips , carries on slipping & producing more & more heat .
Regularly overloaded the barrel & chucking in massively heaped shovels of material at a time has the same effect . So does stopping the mixer with a normal load full of dry ballast , then tipping a half bag of cement in and then starting it up .
On the internet I think the Belle mix operators instructions are available .. Most folk ignore them ,
IIRC... Fill the mixer up the Belle way , get it turning add half dose water ,then half sand /gravel cement add the rest of the dose water , now add the rests of the mix . Don't over load it or get it to the point where a big slug of mix flops down across the inside of the barrel onto the ascending beater bar as it puts a heck of a stress on the gearbox , motor & fan belt.
Once you have poured out a mix give the barrel half the next dosing water , poured in down the lip wall to help wash down any stuck material off the inside of barrel . put the first half the next mix in hang fire with the cement .. letting it run like that whilst you barrow the mix away gives time for it to self clean .
A the end of the session clean the mixer using a bucket of water and five to ten shovels of gravel . mixed ballast , let it run for 20 min or so then tip it out . Don't chuck bricks and big stones in like most " Building experts ) do as again it stresses the machine and can also cause the welds on the beater bars to fatigue .
