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| John Rudd:
I wouldn't normally criticise other folk when going about their business, but couldn't help myself......... Neighbours across the road had a visit from British Gas for their washing machine.. It appears the bearings had gone in the spider for the drum....He was outside resting the spider on two blocks of wood, while driving the bearings out with a hammer and punch!!! :hammer: Then he proceeded to fit the new bearings the same way!! Craftsman my a*s*......I'm glad it wasn't us that needed an appliance repairing :coffee: |
| lordedmond:
How else do you do it :) no seriously thats how we uses to do it with the large motors that I used to repair I am talking 100 HP ones not toothpicks we used a puller to get the old ones off , but to put the new ones on we heated the bearing up and slid them up the shaft and set them home with a length of key steel and a 1 and a half pound hammer. these motors were a fair size and mostly DC so a press would have been difficult to say the least before anyone asks why key steel , its tuff , it dose not mushroom up to quickly , and last thats the way I was taught when I did my apprenticeship which included armature and stator winding some times we had to do a bearing change in the pipe spinning shop whislt the other machines were on full production so it was "get er done" but I will add one rider its how you use your tools that count used properly the method works but it is not for every one now there is no way I do a spindle bearing that way its a clean working environment and a press every time as well as controlled heat to ease the job along Stuart by gad it was a long time ago when I was doing that job 52 years ago |
| Meldonmech:
Hi John Years ago a gas fitter came to my house to change my boiler to north sea gas. I watched him for some time, and asked how long he had worked for the gas board, he replied "one month", so I asked if he was a fully trained craftsman he replied "oh yes I've been on a weeks course". "What job were you doing before" ,he replied "green grocer". For a month after his departure, my boiler blew out with the slightest breeze, and re lighting was a nightmare, in fact boiler became a dirty word, and would send me crazy every time my wife mentioned it. Eventually I stripped the boiler down and the cause was obvious, [craftsman] had been supplied with a 2inch wadge of various thickness packers to ensure the pilot light was beneath the thermocouple. Oh yes he had!!, inserted the whole wadge. So I am not surprised Cheers David |
| John Rudd:
What surprises me is that they use brute force methods and don't have even the basic of equipment.... Even for fitting the bearing, some drawing gear.... A length of screwed rod and spacers, but no a hammer a drift .... |
| hermetic:
Moved my central heating boiler position and fitted a new boiler, ran the gas main to the new position, (this was at the instruction of my "gas man"......."You fit it all, i'll come and connect it up and commission it"). He came, connected it up, only had three joints to solder............they ALL leaked! Moral? Having a certificate means you once got it right for 1 1/2 hours!! |
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