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A quotation request from a quarry operator was one line long: "110 motor for the crusher, price?" When we called back it turned out the machine was a primary jaw crusher, the exist... More Details

The fitting crew opens the input cover of the gearbox, brings the new motor up to it, and the shaft will not go into the bore. The flange outer diameter matches and all four holes ... More Details

The power goes off at the batching plant; the mixer drum is full of two cubic metres of fresh concrete and the lid is closed. Power returns twenty minutes later, the operator press... More Details

Halfway through a shift, a 37 kW rotary screw compressor trips on its overload relay, and on the second attempt there is a burning smell coming from the motor. The maintenance supe... More Details

In a recycling workshop, an operator drops a thick-walled crate fragment into the hopper; the granulator chokes for a moment, the belts squeal, and the motor stops on a thermal tri... More Details

At a sand and gravel plant, an 8-degree inclined belt with a 400 mm drive pulley refuses to move at the first start of the morning; the thermal relay trips, the operator clears the... More Details

A greenhouse operator called us to replace the burned-out motor of a centrifugal pump that delivers water from a well to a storage tank. All they knew was the motor power: 11 kW. W... More Details

The motor of a dust extraction fan in a furniture workshop burned out. A month earlier, the maintenance technician had fitted a larger motor pulley so the same fan would pull more ... More Details

The owner of a marble workshop calls and asks: "I need a 7.5 kW three-phase motor, what does it cost?" The question looks easy to answer, but the store lists more than one motor wi... More Details

At an olive oil plant, the motor on the malaxer has burned out and the rewinder says it cannot be rewound again. The maintenance technician removes it and puts it on the bench; hal... More Details

When a maintenance manager gives their boss a budget of "motor 25,674.00 TRY", the invoice total at the end of the job is almost always higher. A motor does not turn on its own: it... More Details

The purchasing team raised the order, the motor reached the site and maintenance wired it in; a few weeks later accounting cannot tell which order the invoice belongs to, and the q... More Details

Many customers who come to buy a motor do not quote kW or speed; they say "the motor for my pump" or "a motor for the crusher". This article starts from that point. It looks at fiv... More Details

The centrifugal pump's nameplate reads "2900 rpm", the motor has burnt out and the replacement must run at the same speed. This article is written only for buyers in that situation... More Details

When a motor fails, the power and speed of the replacement can usually be read straight off the nameplate; what drags the job out is how the motor is fixed to the machine. If a fla... More Details

DRG Motor's 2026 technical catalogue (PDF, in Turkish) runs to 32 pages and gives a motor's frame dimensions, mounting arrangement, current and torque in a single file. The price i... More Details

A typical call from a stone crushing plant starts like this: "The motor on our jaw crusher burned out, the plate says 1000 rpm, how much is the same one?" This article is written t... More Details

When ordering a replacement for a failed motor, the most reliable source of information is the metal nameplate riveted to the housing. Read its ten or so lines correctly and findin... More Details

The nameplate of the failed motor is worn off; the only thing still legible on the side of the housing is "132M". If that is the most reliable piece of information you have, search... More Details

One question reaches us in the same form again and again: “The pump needs 7.5 kW, but shall we take 11 kW just to be safe?” The opposite version is just as common: “I have a 5.5 kW... More Details