Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

amorce de grippage ou grippage franc

English translation:

incipient / outright seizure

Added to glossary by TesCor -
Feb 7, 2005 00:09
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French term

amorce de grippage ou grippage franc

French to English Tech/Engineering Mechanics / Mech Engineering
Maintenance manual for a steel manufacturer.

Procedures for typical equipment failure in a section dealing with the wringer unit (essoreur), the typical failure is patinage de bande/rouleaux, the probable cause is "amorce de grippage ou grippage franc d'un des rouleaux", and the corrective action is Remplacer le sous-ensemble rouleau concerné et le(s) roulement(s) défectueux en atelier.

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incipient / outright seizure

The worm wheel usually suffers more damage than the worm and this may be of two kinds scuffing and incipient seizure due to lack of lubrication, or surface ...
www.tribology.co.uk/services/investigate/g08-0.htm

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Note added at 11 mins (2005-02-07 00:21:29 GMT)
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Too little clearance can result in piston scuffing or outright seizure as well as a ... sealing between ring and cylinder wall and better lubrication = more power ...
www.cycleimprovements.com/docs/link_pages/017.html

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Note added at 12 mins (2005-02-07 00:22:30 GMT)
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Quite where the border lies between \"scuffing\" and \"incipient seizure\" I don\'t know, but I would in fact be tempted to translate these terms as \"scuffing / seizure\".
Peer comment(s):

agree JCEC
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agree frentur
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agree Tony M : ...with the slight caveat as Zaphod points out that it depends a bit on the TYPE of bearings in use
7 hrs
Actually I did do some Googling, and found sites referring to scuffing of ball bearings, etc.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks Bourth"
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partial or outright bearing seizure (failure)

This is probably a roller or tapered bearing application, so scuffing etc and other problems associated with shell bearings would not apply. They wouldn't seize anyway, they'de just burn out.
This applies to several ball or taper bearings packing it in, or a race overheating and the whole mess coming to a halt.
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Partial or positive seizure

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