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If you have geared motors running important and/or critical plant on your site please check your oil levels. Low oil levels and lack of maintenance can mean an expensive replacement is required.

We where asked to investigate issues with this Flygt sewage pump which had stopped working. A test with the meter showed the unit had an earth fault. It was also seriously blocked with a rag and whatever else this used to be !!Please be mindful of what you put down the toilet !! This will […]

Deal Pier stretches 313 meters out in to the English channel. Situated at the end of the Pier is a lovely little Restaurant (highly recommended) with toilet facilities (hence the reason for our visit!) Underneath the restaurant there is a very small building which houses 2 Mono pumps. These are responsible for pumping waste water […]

This Weir pump came to us from one of the water authorities. Extensively corroded, it proved to be a bit of a challenge to get apart. Once it had been dismantled and all of the components shot blasted, we could see what needed doing.Some machining to the seal housings and a new extension shaft (made […]

2 pumps, 1 duty and the other standby.One of these Grundfos pumps had failed previously leaving the standby to take up the slack.This is all well and good until the standby fails as well! These particular pumps are part of a chiller which was now out of service.The pumps where removed, completely overhauled (stator rewound, […]

Replacing old obsolete pumps, especially when the modern alternatives are not a direct fit can be awkward to say the least. These 3 pumps were located about 8 feet below ground level and mounted on a concrete plinth.The first job was to remove the plastic pipework to allow us to remove the old units.New bases […]

Quite often we get specially designed gearbox units in for repair.Often, the gears are stripped as you can see in the images. The original unit is obsolete, a replacement gearbox will not fit and there are no spare parts available.As well as reproducing output shafts, we can also have gears remanufactured to original specification. The […]

Recently had this 42Kw DC electric motor in for repair, as you can see the commutator is in extremely poor condition, the armature needed a rewind as did the field coils. This customers electric motor is now up and running- armature skimmed and rewound to spec.

Another site visit to take a look at a fan. The initial remit was to try and repair the fan and get it back in to service as soon as possible. However, on closer inspection the fan was found to be way beyond any sort of repair. All structural integrity had been lost, as soon […]

As you can probably imagine, a plant room full of hot water pumps gets very warm indeed.This particular plant room had an ambient of just under 39 degrees. The fan currently installed ( a single phase plate fan)It was pushing cool outside air into the building at 1000 rpm (6 pole).This solution was not very […]