Could this parallel gear box made for a small John Deere lawn tractor, which is chain driven, work on my set-up?
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Here is a picture of what the gear box is going to replace as...
The autopsy is complete...looks like you guys were right...shock load on the bearing cases was just too much...
Even the 2nd bearing housing behind the shattered one was split almost in half....
I found a picture of a blower that's for sale that has what might work....this looks like what you...
Thanks Piloon....It's hard to see but I do have 2 of those flange mounted bearings on each shaft....I sandwiched them on either side of that steel plate I mounted everything on....Here's an earlier picture before the explosion.....
I think your right about the shock of that PTO being turned...
OP here again....Well it all worked great until it didn't....The lower flange mounted bearing detonated on me....Of course the chain flies off the gears....
I'm not sure why it blew....the Ransomes has an electric PTO clutch....maybe the shock of it going on was too much for the bearing....
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I'm the original poster here....I needed to reverse my input to get the blower fan to spin in the right direction....
Well we got our first real snow last night a quick 12" Nor'easter......Everything held up well....chain stayed on the sprockets and no one was injured or killed....
At the end...
We have some real mechanical geniuses on this site and the descriptions are good but.......... a picture is really worth a 1000 words !!!........thanks Yooper !!....Mike
I finished up the service/maintenance of the Ransomes Jaguar....(oil change, grease, filters etc..) and the change over of the new snow blower from the old.....Now we wait for snow....
One thing I added to the blower that probably won't grenade is the shovel I attached to the blower box....$12...
Thanks Metal, can you post a link to where on this website your work was done....I need to see how you did yours and how far away mine is from that....
I'm using a 50 chain....I have enough room on the plate to mount another sprocket or a tension-er....no plans yet for that.....do I need it...
I was concerned about the speed of the fan & auger....I looked at the old blower when it was off the machine....
I hand spun the input shaft and for every time the fan went around once the input shaft spun (2 1/2) times....
I thought....I have to duplicate that speed with the sprockets and...