What Is a Gearbox?
Industrial Gearbox Repair We've been working with gearboxes since 1927. That's nearly a century of stripping them down, rebuilding them, diagnosing faults that other people missed, and manufacturing parts that simply aren't available anywhere else. In that time, we've seen just about every type of gearbox failure there is and almost all of them could have been handled better, faster, or cheaper if the right information had been in the right hands earlier. What is a Gearbox? A gearbox is a mechanical unit that sits between a power source, usually a motor and whatever that power is supposed to drive. Its job is to take the speed and torque produced by the motor and convert them into the speed and torque that the application actually needs. Motors run at a fixed speed. The machines they power almost never need that exact speed, or that exact amount of turning force. A gearbox bridges that gap. It does it through a set of gears toothed wheels that mesh together so that as o...