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Last Saturday 1 PM, it was my day off, sun was shining mhhhh getting ready for a nice day on my terrace(had enough of coffee and knew a lot of cold beers were waiting for me).....
Pring pring...(telephone ringing on my day off makes me nervous, most of the times it's family or friends but you always think "oh no not the bowling")..
PRING PRING...
I saw on the display it was the bowling indeed(at this saturday a new guy is working with only one month experience so I hoped it would be something not to bad)....
"hey Martin I've got a problem with a BE motor, it's getting hot and the carpet won't move either, the evening mechanic did try three other stators already"(I forbid to change BE stators only because we have to much different BE motors; GE, Westinghouse long and short ankers, Nationals(also different types), 60 HZ and 50 Hz and ofcourse all of them LH and RH)..
"I did change the complete gearbox plus the stator like you told me,it was the last one I could find"(we allways have 3 complete RH and 3 Lh ready}"but it's still running too hot and the carpet won't move..."
I did put my unopened beer back in the fridge and said my wife I had to go to my work and would be back in an hour or so.
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.......................................
Oops the wheather is getting to bad now with a lot of thunder, I have to shut my computer down for some time....I'm affraid something goes wrong ...will be continued..
M.
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We haven't had rain for about three months and now we have the whole bunch at once, the thunder sounds less hard so I can continiou(lost a computer in a thunderstorm once too much).
"WRONG..." that's where I left.
Came in the bowling and went to the 'office'and saw 5 BE motors standing there ripped to the bone, said "aw my god" and went to lane 13(?)where I found our new pinchaser with question marks and clouds above his head.
"I did my best but I'm realy lost now"he said.
I saw the "half moon"bearing retainer was broken and the shaft of the rear roller was GRRRGRRiinging in the side plate, at this moment I knew my "sunny afternoon" was gone.
I also saw the cushion plank was broken and the plows were loose and the ball door was broken(they all could have survived till monday but I decided he could learn something from this so we did go all the way).
We took out the front roller ,rear roller, bounce plate,carpet, balldoor, plow, cushion plank etc.
We cleaned the place and I wanted to show him how dangerous the front bearing assy's are by removing one of the carpet removing pins, after removing it itstead of banging against the tail plank it stayed on the same position..., No movement possible on that thing (the new mechanic started to look at me..."is he kidding me????"
I tried the grease "gun"on it but nothing came through, so I tried to get it of.. I did get it of, but also the pivot stud broke of*&^%$#$%%^&^%, my new mechanic nows nothing about welding but he knows how to use a mirror and bend a welding stick 180 degrees now.
Well, got that thing going again, after reading somebody did get the spring on by hand I did give it a try too and it is actualy easy(if the bounce plate is gone try this out for fun once). Luckaly the small plow was broken and already removed so the acces to the the broken half moon bearing support was easyer already so I just needed to grind the old welded one of and bold a new one on.
After renewing the worm gear and the clutch plate (broken and bended thanks to a motor running the wrong side before)The machine did run again.. but the sun was gone and it's raining all day now, so be carefull with lane 13.
Hope I didn't bore you
Martin
Pring pring...(telephone ringing on my day off makes me nervous, most of the times it's family or friends but you always think "oh no not the bowling")..
PRING PRING...
I saw on the display it was the bowling indeed(at this saturday a new guy is working with only one month experience so I hoped it would be something not to bad)....
"hey Martin I've got a problem with a BE motor, it's getting hot and the carpet won't move either, the evening mechanic did try three other stators already"(I forbid to change BE stators only because we have to much different BE motors; GE, Westinghouse long and short ankers, Nationals(also different types), 60 HZ and 50 Hz and ofcourse all of them LH and RH)..
"I did change the complete gearbox plus the stator like you told me,it was the last one I could find"(we allways have 3 complete RH and 3 Lh ready}"but it's still running too hot and the carpet won't move..."
I did put my unopened beer back in the fridge and said my wife I had to go to my work and would be back in an hour or so.
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.......................................
Oops the wheather is getting to bad now with a lot of thunder, I have to shut my computer down for some time....I'm affraid something goes wrong ...will be continued..
M.
.................................
We haven't had rain for about three months and now we have the whole bunch at once, the thunder sounds less hard so I can continiou(lost a computer in a thunderstorm once too much).
"WRONG..." that's where I left.
Came in the bowling and went to the 'office'and saw 5 BE motors standing there ripped to the bone, said "aw my god" and went to lane 13(?)where I found our new pinchaser with question marks and clouds above his head.
"I did my best but I'm realy lost now"he said.
I saw the "half moon"bearing retainer was broken and the shaft of the rear roller was GRRRGRRiinging in the side plate, at this moment I knew my "sunny afternoon" was gone.
I also saw the cushion plank was broken and the plows were loose and the ball door was broken(they all could have survived till monday but I decided he could learn something from this so we did go all the way).
We took out the front roller ,rear roller, bounce plate,carpet, balldoor, plow, cushion plank etc.
We cleaned the place and I wanted to show him how dangerous the front bearing assy's are by removing one of the carpet removing pins, after removing it itstead of banging against the tail plank it stayed on the same position..., No movement possible on that thing (the new mechanic started to look at me..."is he kidding me????"
I tried the grease "gun"on it but nothing came through, so I tried to get it of.. I did get it of, but also the pivot stud broke of*&^%$#$%%^&^%, my new mechanic nows nothing about welding but he knows how to use a mirror and bend a welding stick 180 degrees now.
Well, got that thing going again, after reading somebody did get the spring on by hand I did give it a try too and it is actualy easy(if the bounce plate is gone try this out for fun once). Luckaly the small plow was broken and already removed so the acces to the the broken half moon bearing support was easyer already so I just needed to grind the old welded one of and bold a new one on.
After renewing the worm gear and the clutch plate (broken and bended thanks to a motor running the wrong side before)The machine did run again.. but the sun was gone and it's raining all day now, so be carefull with lane 13.
Hope I didn't bore you
Martin
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