boring manly work post pt. 3
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vuzhyet more manly boringness!
morning commenced, as it usually does, with me showing up roughly on time, everyone else showing up 15 minutes late, then spending another 15 minutes foot-shuffling.
we shimmed up the blower inside the housing, since we had already dropped the motor shaft into the blower's center hole.
everything about this job sounds suggestively dirty doesn't it?
we tried to center the shaft, then banged the quick-release hub up into the hole, connecting the shaft to the blower -- with one false start, just like always. it is not possible for us to do something right the first time. we must always take that into account.
after pounding the hub up into place from inside the dust collector, where it's impossible to find a comfortable way to position onesself, i realized - as we were threading the bolts in - that this hub probably, almost certainly had to be torqued in at a specified torque.
i called good old Bud, (who was mentioned in one of the previous boring manly work posts,) to find out if he knew about this question of torque.
i hadn't talked to this dude in days, and within 5 seconds of his picking up the phone, before i even explained who i was -- i just had enough time to say "Hi Bud, I..." and he was all like "Oh, how'd it go for you guys? Did you get that hub off okay?"
BUD TROXLER IS MADE OUT OF MAGIC!!!
so i asked him about the torque specs for this hub and he said that there should be a letter code stamped on the hub that will tell you what torque the hub requires, and then he faxed me a chart to use with that keycode and the size of the shaft.
when we matched up the code (Q1) to the chart, we found that we needed to exert 350 pounds...
wait a sec, 350 POUNDS?, that can't be right!
Dylan was saying, "Dude, my torque wrench only goes up to 150, we're going to have to rent a pneumatic wrench of some kind!"
and "150 pounds of torque is really fucking tough to get to, you'd need a long cheater bar and a lot of effort"
for once, i was the cooler head involved, saying, "wait a sec, that can't be right, it wasn't that tough to break loose those bolts, i did it with the dinky little ratchet wrench by myself."
i remembered that all bolts have torque specs too, but i couldn't find a generalized spec sheet for bolts... so i called my pops to see if he had one. i explained the general situation to him and he said "HOLY COWS, 350 POUNDS?" he said he didn't have a spec sheet like i needed, but that he knew bolt people, so i told him the design on the bolt (three hash marks and a triangle) and left him to get with his peeps.
i explained to Dylan afterwards that Dad was pretty good to have around, him having bolt people and all.
i mean, do you have bolt people? i bet you don't even have a single bolt person!
he called me back in a while and said he didn't think that bolt was rated much higher than thirty or forty foot pounds.
so we all commenced to scratchin' our noggins.
i re-read the chart... Q bushing on a 1 5/8" shaft, minimum 350 inch pounds torque.
INCH POUNDS!
not foot pounds!
Dad said, "Inch pounds! Well, there's your solution, now we need to find out what the conversion is... I know there's a conversion formula for that!"
I said "Uh, divide by twelve?"
he said "Hm, let me call someone and get right back to you."
apparently he has torque people too.
a few minutes later, he called back and said "Uh, divide by twelve!"
29 foot pounds and a cramped neck muscle or two later, and we had the fan attached to the motor.
we didn't want anything accidentally left inside the blower housing so, from inside the dust collector, i stuck my head up inside the blower to make absolutely sure that nothing was left behind. here's my respiratory-protected head framed by the blades of the big blower fan!
it was all cake from here on, i left the project and started to try to get caught up with all the notes and phone messages at my desk, and Dylan re-attached the ductwork, and re-wired the motor.
we undid all the lock-outs and flipped everything back on and got...
a very loud, unhealthy sounding electrical HUM, and a motor that wouldn't turn.
morning commenced, as it usually does, with me showing up roughly on time, everyone else showing up 15 minutes late, then spending another 15 minutes foot-shuffling.
we shimmed up the blower inside the housing, since we had already dropped the motor shaft into the blower's center hole.
everything about this job sounds suggestively dirty doesn't it?
we tried to center the shaft, then banged the quick-release hub up into the hole, connecting the shaft to the blower -- with one false start, just like always. it is not possible for us to do something right the first time. we must always take that into account.
after pounding the hub up into place from inside the dust collector, where it's impossible to find a comfortable way to position onesself, i realized - as we were threading the bolts in - that this hub probably, almost certainly had to be torqued in at a specified torque.
i called good old Bud, (who was mentioned in one of the previous boring manly work posts,) to find out if he knew about this question of torque.
i hadn't talked to this dude in days, and within 5 seconds of his picking up the phone, before i even explained who i was -- i just had enough time to say "Hi Bud, I..." and he was all like "Oh, how'd it go for you guys? Did you get that hub off okay?"
BUD TROXLER IS MADE OUT OF MAGIC!!!
so i asked him about the torque specs for this hub and he said that there should be a letter code stamped on the hub that will tell you what torque the hub requires, and then he faxed me a chart to use with that keycode and the size of the shaft.
when we matched up the code (Q1) to the chart, we found that we needed to exert 350 pounds...
wait a sec, 350 POUNDS?, that can't be right!
Dylan was saying, "Dude, my torque wrench only goes up to 150, we're going to have to rent a pneumatic wrench of some kind!"
and "150 pounds of torque is really fucking tough to get to, you'd need a long cheater bar and a lot of effort"
for once, i was the cooler head involved, saying, "wait a sec, that can't be right, it wasn't that tough to break loose those bolts, i did it with the dinky little ratchet wrench by myself."
i remembered that all bolts have torque specs too, but i couldn't find a generalized spec sheet for bolts... so i called my pops to see if he had one. i explained the general situation to him and he said "HOLY COWS, 350 POUNDS?" he said he didn't have a spec sheet like i needed, but that he knew bolt people, so i told him the design on the bolt (three hash marks and a triangle) and left him to get with his peeps.
i explained to Dylan afterwards that Dad was pretty good to have around, him having bolt people and all.
i mean, do you have bolt people? i bet you don't even have a single bolt person!
he called me back in a while and said he didn't think that bolt was rated much higher than thirty or forty foot pounds.
so we all commenced to scratchin' our noggins.
i re-read the chart... Q bushing on a 1 5/8" shaft, minimum 350 inch pounds torque.
INCH POUNDS!
not foot pounds!
Dad said, "Inch pounds! Well, there's your solution, now we need to find out what the conversion is... I know there's a conversion formula for that!"
I said "Uh, divide by twelve?"
he said "Hm, let me call someone and get right back to you."
apparently he has torque people too.
a few minutes later, he called back and said "Uh, divide by twelve!"
29 foot pounds and a cramped neck muscle or two later, and we had the fan attached to the motor.
we didn't want anything accidentally left inside the blower housing so, from inside the dust collector, i stuck my head up inside the blower to make absolutely sure that nothing was left behind. here's my respiratory-protected head framed by the blades of the big blower fan!
it was all cake from here on, i left the project and started to try to get caught up with all the notes and phone messages at my desk, and Dylan re-attached the ductwork, and re-wired the motor.
we undid all the lock-outs and flipped everything back on and got...
a very loud, unhealthy sounding electrical HUM, and a motor that wouldn't turn.
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These posts just keep getting better.
Date: 2005-03-25 05:46 am (UTC)Your man score is at an 11.
The fact that the goddamned thing still won't start after two days of service might actually boost you to a 12.
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Date: 2005-03-25 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-26 04:21 am (UTC)you should see me with a P.A.P.R. respirator and a full-body teflon suit!
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Date: 2005-03-26 04:29 am (UTC)