Today's objectives : Wire up the 415 volt three phase input and connect the furnace body ready for pinging
All very well, but the postman delivered the replacement bearings for my buffing spindle, the motor of which is in pieces on the workshop floor - so re-assemble with new bearings - it's only a 5 minute job.
Blooming thing took literally the whole morning. First assembly, greased the bearings, pressed them home, replaced the motor end bells, spindle locked solid
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Slacken an end cap spindle frees up - have I put the crinkle shaft expansion washer in the wrong place
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Pull it apart, no washer in correct place, make sure bearings fully home - reassemble - still stiff - argh, beginning to loose the will to live . Dismantle for third time, examine everything, find a burr on one bearing retainer ring pressing inwards onto shaft - bung it back together, put it back on it's pillar - all OK except I've just lost an entire morning
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So I didn't get started on the furnace until this afternoon. First thing, pull it away from the wall on the pallet truck and unbolt all the doors - front one has keys, the other three although hinged are bolted shut, and the last panel is just bolted and not really removable as loads is mounted on it.
To get it out of my previous foundry, the main isolator switch operating handle, and the 125 A input socket had to be removed to get it through the door - but where are they? OK found tucked away inside behind panels, and at least I had had the foresight to label the phases
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Bit of a pain re-assembling them - one of the Nutsert bushes holding the input socket failed and is pretty well impossible to get at, so it's fixed with three out of four bolts, but OK for now.