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1. YOUR
CONVEYOR
IDLERS

3. Install off-set trough or Impact Idlers in the
wrong direction to belt travel. The rollers
may not die, but throughout their
existence, they will be exposed to a life of
mental hell. Training Idlers installed back to
front will retaliate viciously, causing mental
anguish to anyone trying to track the belt.

5. Blast them frequently with a high pressure
water hose directed squarely at the seals.
Death is not immediate but agonisingly
slow, as the ingested water causes the
bearings to eventually collapse.

7. Bash the roller shell to seat it into
the frame slots, rather than use a
soft dolly on the shaft. It's not a
pleasant way to go.

9. Allow small stones / ore to be caught
between the roller end disc and the
brackets. Death is quick as the roller will
jam, causing either the shell to wear away
and expose its guts, or the end disc is cut
out completely from the shell. Same result.

11. Install light duty series where the belt speed
and carry load is greater than the specified
bearing ratings. You will then very quickly bring
the rollers to the end of their life.

13. Don't bother to clear rollers which
are jammed. The roller will not last
long. Not classified as first
degree, but definitely manslaughter.

15. Shake them to death. Allow build up
to remain on the rollers.

17. Keep them stored in the open, subject to all weather
conditions, extremes of heat and cold, and to sleep on
the ground. Not on a nice warm pallet with a tarp for
protection. The rubber impact and return rubber disc
types will die first from UV exposure. The steel roller
will appear OK but their life will be shortened from
severe internal injuries, ie seals and cancerous rust. If
you store them vertically, death will be even quicker.

19. A common method of torture employed
during the historical wars. You can inflict
excruciating pain until inevitable death for
your conveyor rollers. Simply allow roller
shells to wear prematurely by
abrasion, usually caused by a dirty
conveyor belt.

21. Cripple the roller by allowing the belt to mistrack. This applies full load belt edge tension to
cut the shell, or even the actual conveyor
structure. Death is not immediate to the roller
shell BUT...

23. ... potentially plant operators could die if the
conveyor structure itself gives way.
The sources said the accident occurred in the sinter plant, as the structure supporting conveyor belts
carrying sinter to the three blast furnaces failed due to overload. Sinter - a mixture of iron ore, coking coal
and limestone - is screened in the plant and carried to the blast furnaces where the hot metal is produced.

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