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Chain whip / lift cylinder damage - information needed

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mrbunngle
Ohio, United States

Does anyone have any literature or even video that demonstrates how chain whip damages (scores) lift cylinders?

Posted 5 May 2009 08:49 PM

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justinm
New York, United States

if you cant fix it with like a 400 grit or its deeply scored youll need to replace the rod or have it re-chromed

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Posted 6 May 2009 12:16 AM

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Normandy
Co. Cork, Ireland

If the chains are scoring the Cylinder rods there are 2 probable causes,

1 the chains are not evenly tensioned allowing one to be slack and rubbing against the cylinder rod when traveling.

2 the operators are lowering the forks too soon while retracting from a pallet, binding on the pallet and allowing the chains to go slack. This will inevitably allow the chains to come into contact with the Cylinder rods, with the results you suggest.

I am sure there are many variations of this theme but the net cause will probably be loose lift chains

Posted 7 May 2009 00:41 AM

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DAMO
DUBLIN, Ireland

Apart from what normandy described i have seen this on a lot of reach trucks .....mainy after a lift ram seal change ..if the rams are not bled properly u get a bouncing effect ..also settings in the controller [parameters ]letting to much oil by pass solenoid valves ,,,,especially with full load ,,it would help to no what brand ;;

Posted 7 May 2009 04:16 AM

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