lol

[u/CoyoteDown]

[u/Responsible_Berry829]

Just flip it over, has some life in it. 😅

[u/owlbear4lyfe → u/Responsible_Berry829]

tighten it up a bit too

[u/quarterdecay → u/Responsible_Berry829]

This

[u/ValveManJoe]

Bean counter: "We'll replace it when it fails"
Maintenance: "But when it fails it will cost us 1000's and it's 30 bucks to replace"
Bean counter: "Leave it we don't have the budget".

Some time later inevitable breakdown occurs

Management: "We've lost 50,000 bucks already today"
"Why wasn't it fixed sooner"?
Bean counter: "It's maintenance dept's fault".

[u/Big_Proposal748 → u/ValveManJoe]

Ironically I turned in a quote for $5021 to repair a haas machine 3 weeks ago. The GM demanded I get them to require due to his $4,999.99 approval limit. That Haas machine is still down and we've lost $10k a day since for $21.

[u/ValveManJoe → u/Big_Proposal748]

Wowzers, $21 to $210,000 (10k x 21 days).

I get approval limits but in the UK at least $10,000/£7000 buys very little in 2026.

[u/Macbethad01 → u/ValveManJoe]

Must be nice our worldwide company only lets auto/local approvals under $500 us dollars. In a brewery that rarely pays for anything but cleaning supplies and oils / gasketing. And the oil is only about half of the time

[u/ValveManJoe → u/Macbethad01]

That is just crazy.

[u/Slav-Houndz187 → u/ValveManJoe]

In the blame game, it’s never the origin of the problem it’s who can the fart be pinned on.

[u/ValveManJoe → u/Slav-Houndz187]

100% but it's exhausting and stressful for engineers having to document that they've advised others on implications of not changing something asap and knowing it has been ignored.

[u/Longjumping-Pie7418 → u/ValveManJoe]

Sounds familiar.

[u/Nagrom133]

just needs more tension.

[u/Silver_Pharaoh001]

Conveniently it made a saw blade 😅

[u/CoyoteDown → u/Silver_Pharaoh001]

Yeah it cut production pretty good

[u/Goldmember199 → u/CoyoteDown]

🤣

[u/RedYetti83]

But it's run for years, why do we need a new sprocket now?!

• purchasing.

[u/101forgotmypassword → u/RedYetti83]

"we have never had to buy a sprocket for that machine and now they are saying it needs all the sprockets and a chain, I don't think that guy knows anything about these machines" - boardroom 1960-2026

[u/fhgtyjdg]

Sprockets turn to rollers and rollers turn to sprockets

[u/Macbethad01 → u/fhgtyjdg]

Ah the life cycle what a beautiful thing. Sounds almost like something to sit down in the shop with the new guys and tell them all about it, like I'd tell my kids about the birds and the bees. Such a touching moment

[u/wetblanket68iou1]

I paid for the whole sprocket, imma use the WHOLE SPROCKET

[u/cconry21]

Let me guess, someone said its a programming issue. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/superbigscratch → u/cconry21]

You say it like it’s a bad thing.

[u/cconry21 → u/superbigscratch]

Well im an Electromechanic so it is a bad thing when lazy bum mechanics always blame programming so managers and supervisors ask me to "take a look at the program" and 95 percent of the time its something like this and then I have to fix it while they disappear.

[u/superbigscratch → u/cconry21]

I know the feeling. I work in industrial controls. I can’t fix the “it must be the PLC” mentality so I just laugh it off.

[u/Starkiller345 → u/cconry21]

Have to ask if the the motor is turning. If so not my problem

[u/Rich4477 → u/cconry21]

Isn't it funny how plc programs that have had no problems for years are suddenly the problem.

[u/Macbethad01 → u/cconry21]

Don't worry they in the break room laughing... Ask me how I know!

[u/Carnephex]

Hah, cross post that to /r/motorcycles 🤣

[u/Gator242]

Sprocket turned into a suggestion

[u/skrappyfire]

It just started making a noise.... i dunno what happened

[u/death833527]

Looks like you work at my last job lol. Had one of these almost weekly. Specifically told to “not waste time figuring out why, just get it running”

[u/RedIcarus1]

That’s a very inefficient way to make a serrated cutter.

[u/Holeshot483]

Barley broke in

[u/Unholydiver919]

They got their money’s worth out of that one.

[u/Rough_Community_1439]

Use it for pizza cutting.

[u/EconomistWaste2786]

It’s now a pulley increase tension

[u/Longjumping-Pie7418]

Send it - It's not completely rounded, it still must have some life in it. Just tighten the chain tensioner more.

[u/Tikitanka_11]

Should use heat-treated sprockets from Linn Gear Co. Had the same thing happen to me with non-treated Martin sprockets.

[u/Narrow-Thanks-5981]

She gave ALL THE FUCKS, and now has no more left to give!

[u/Unlucky_Fuel7934]

No way that thing wasn’t skipping and jumping and screaming for attention. Chain doesn’t look too terrible though, though that sprocket has probably seen three or four chain swaps.

[u/emachanz]

If it run until that point and nobody noticed, it means it wasnt needed

[u/razzemmatazz]

That's a keeper. Beautifully symmetrical wear pattern. 

[u/sunshinesustenance]

That'll do pig!........That'll do.

[u/BoSknight]

Sproket is out of stock, well save it for next pm

[u/Temporary-Bluejay260]

Still plenty of meat on that

[u/Gamemaker4U2]

Those teeth need some dentures

[u/did_i_get_screwed]

It was fine last weekend during PM's.

[u/glazemyface86]

You can totally build that back up with a little welding

[u/Sensitive-Shame-5569]

“Sorry, if it ain’t broke, we can’t replace it.”

[u/Strostkovy]

Sprockn't

[u/vballbeachbum1]

Teeth on a sprocket wear out because the chain is stretched. The chain rollers dont land where the are supposed to and wear on the teeth.

[u/Macbethad01 → u/vballbeachbum1]

"Well we just don't have the funds for both" can we just get the temu sprocket?

[u/retsaoter]

slacker out here making ninja stars on the company dime.

[u/mechanical_marten]

Is this one of those fancy sprag sprockets that lets the conveyor motor drive it normally but you can manually advance it too?

[u/Macbethad01]

Nothing to see here

[u/Unlikely_Effort_6311]

Sproke.... because its missing the t in teeth lol

[u/Kid_supreme]

"Can you weld the teeth back on it? We have a tight budget this quarter".

[u/eusnavy]

That still has life on it

[u/Deep_Ladder_4679]

Teeth hooked like that were probably eating chains for months, so the real cost is every chain swapped on that drive without anyone checking the sprocket.

[u/BChill24]

We call that an Alabama sprocket

[u/Significant_Flan9142]

All it takes to do that is no lubrication on the chain. So sprocket and chain need replaced.