how to change worm wheels (video)

Martin Raak | 7. March 2017

the main differences between our gears and standard metal gears are:

ours are lubrication free (no grease, no oil) and very lightweight due to plastic and aluminium parts instead of steel, brass or bronze (=standard design). The same is valid for the bearings we use on the output (igus PRT = polymer round tables).

This makes it very easy to open our joints, in case worm wheels need to be exchanged (reasons for exchange might be: broken gear teeth due to overload on the output or the need to change gear parts due to changing conditions like temperature,…). The video shows how to proceed: