Does it have plastic gears? If so has anyone had problems with them stripping? I have hard dirt.
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As a previous owner replied to you, the gears are encased in a housing and aren't visible. However, I very much doubt they're plastic. You say your ground is hard welcome to the club. So's mine. It got the job done in hard NC clay. Better than I expected for an inexpensive electric Tiller. Hope this helps.
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Hi Jennifer, I cannot visually see the gears because they're encased in a gear box. But I cannot imagine them to be made of plastic. I used the tiller on some pretty hard soil, also embedded with rocks. The tiller did fine. In fact, the tiller prongs (made of metal) sustained the heavy tilling without being bent or broken. I'm pretty happy with its overall performance. My only regret is that I didn't buy it sooner. Good luck on your experience.
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The tines/blades of the tiller are metal. As for the actual gears, the casing is made of plastic and you could not see the gears inside. The bolts that held the motor housing/casing and held the tines in place didn't have a problems with stripping, they just flat out snapped off for us. We were able to replace the ones that held the tines together, but when the ones that went into the housing snapped off, we were unable to replace those and the whole device ended up failing.
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I don't think so. The soil I was preparing was rock hard, so ended up loosening it with a spading fork and removing large rocks.
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not sure of the gears and it works good we had some hard dirt were we was digging up are garden did good but it pulls on you but dig up good.
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Hi Jennifer,I cannot visually see the gears because they're encased in a gear box. But I cannot imagine them to be made of plastic. I used the tiller on some pretty hard soil, also embedded with rocks. The tiller did fine. In fact, the tiller prongs (made of metal) sustained the heavy tilling without being bent or broken. I'm pretty happy with its overall performance. My only regret is that I didn't buy it sooner. Good luck on your experience.
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It has metal gears on drive belt. Outside housing is nylon or plastic. Pulley wheels for belt are metal
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The plastic gears seem to get out of alignment, and lock up, when unrolling the hose. This does not happen every time but seems to increase the more you use the unit. The hose unrolled easier if the water was off, and the nozzle open. I tried two of these aquawinders and finally gave up and trashed them both. I even bolted them to the house and still could not pull the hose out. Would suggest you get rid of it, nothing wrong with your hose.
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Don't know about grease but my Speed Queen AWN542 works very well on yard dirt. It has a powerful agitator. Plus all Speed Queen top loaders have a soak cycle that should help with the grease but I have not had to use it yet. One minor nit with the soak cycle is that after it is done you then have to run the load through a entire regular cycle but an easy workaround suggested by other owners is to use the regular cycle but lift the lid on the washer after the initial fill to let the load soak. After it soaks for a while just close the iid to run the load through the rest of the cycle. You can't do this with a modern HE machine. The only other recommendations I have is to use lots of water (easy with a Speed Queen) and don't overload the machine (especially with jeans.)
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Mine didn't last long enough for that to ever come up. The gears in mine stripped out after about 3 weeks of extremely light use
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By Brandon K on September 15, 2012After maybe grinding up 20 or so pounds of pork, the machine started to make internal noises and ceased to work. After pulling it apart I found cheap plastic gears that were stripped of their teeth. I can't find replacement parts online and I emailed manufacture no response yet. My advise spend some the extra cash and buy a STX, because that is what I will be doing soon. I'm sure if I get another set of gears it will only be a matter of time before they strip too.
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There were gears on the inside. It fit my 38inch agrifab sweeper just fine. May want to check on parts tree or the like and see if it is a fairly standard part for those sweepers. I will say that the wheel I got was gussetted more than the stock one was and the plastic seemed to be of better quality.
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The plastic is very hard, like ABS (not sure if it is). It does warp a bit unless you use the (now included) wear strip.Our driveway is gravel and the shovel has done well with the wear strip on.
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Not sure which gears you are talking about. Part of this is plastic, and most of it is stainless steel. The wheel that tightens the parts that get attached, is plastic. It works very well, whatever the parts are made of.
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It has an adjustable clutch that will help prevent stripping threads. If you meant stripping the heads, there is an impact driver attachment that will help prevent that.
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Impossible to correctly answer this without knowing which HB model you are comparing the Bodum. Plastic case on parts of the exterior is not concerning. You need to look at the interior of the Bodum. No plastic gears, but can't say the same about some HB models.
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Your gears are Stripped. they are made of plastic and will strip if rotors were spinning and it gets caught in a tree. You can find the parts for them fairly cheap but shipping takes awhile. (china) Look at them closely. Hope this Helps Sorry
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Basically they are the same. After adjusting the cover of this one ($34.99) it works great, and cleans easily! If you buy a different one be sure to get one with screw-on brass gears like this one. The ones with pressed-on plastic gears may be doomed because of the heat. Also, you want to be able to unscrew the handle and stirring rod so you can clean them.
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I had mine working perfect for almost a year. But when I took apart the motor the problem was NOT that the motor burned it. Dust had filled the gear box so badly that it stripped the gear of it's teeth. I poured out tablespoons of litter dust build up! Regularly take apart the motor house and clean out the dust and you shouldn't have a problem with it.
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Funny timing on this question.. had my mower bout 9 months used probably 10 times.. thought gear box had gone south but was just adjustment..was looking at it 15 min ago. so i know the belt from the power shaft drives a gear box but cant confirm if steel or plastic gears.. my guess would be plastic tho as pretty sure gears inside wheels are plastic. But as a side note i do like the mower - plenty of power and lightweight easy to push around trees and such and cuts pretty well.. though if you buy be sure to check that the front axle is correctly positioned and fully locked by tabs near each wheel. mine wasn't but was easy to correct once i saw what was wrong. hope that helps.. Kurt Funny timing on this question.. had my mower bout 9 months used probably 10 times.. thought gear box had gone south but was just adjustment..was looking at it 15 min ago. so i know the belt from the power shaft drives a gear box but cant confirm if steel or plastic gears.. my guess would be plastic tho as pretty sure gears inside wheels are plastic. But as a side note i do like the mower - plenty of power and lightweight easy to push around trees and such and cuts pretty well.. though if you buy be sure to check that the front axle is correctly positioned and fully locked by tabs near each... » Read More Funny timing on this question.. had my mower bout 9 months used probably 10 times.. thought gear box had gone south but was just adjustment..was looking at it 15 min ago. so i know the belt from the power shaft drives a gear box but cant confirm if steel or plastic gears.. my guess would be plastic tho as pretty sure gears inside wheels are plastic. But as a side note i do like the mower - plenty of power and lightweight easy to push around trees and such and cuts pretty well.. though if you buy be sure to check that the front axle is correctly positioned and fully locked by tabs near each wheel. mine wasn't but was easy to correct once i saw what was wrong. hope that helps.. Kurt « Show Less
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You can buy metal gears separately for $10. We had one with the regular hard (plastic?)gears they come with, lasted a few years
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There is a small drag from this style motor. The geared hub motor has no drag, but gears will eventually wear out