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Found a weird fix for a sticky swing brake on an old Link-Belt
I was on a job in Boise last month with a 1980s Link-Belt HTC-8610. The swing brake kept sticking, just a little, but enough to make smooth rotations a real fight. I tried the usual stuff, cleaning and adjusting, but it kept coming back. Out of ideas, I talked to an old timer who used to run the same model. He told me to put a tiny bit of powdered graphite, not grease, on the actuator pin. I was sure it would just make a mess, but I gave it a shot. After a light dusting, the sticking stopped completely and the swing felt like new. Has anyone else run into this on older machines and found a different trick that worked?
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