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WEB HUNTER includes a couple of articles, several Q&A bits and a fact sheet. The machinery stopped when the drive motor ceased driving. With downtime being so universally odious (and obvious to management), no doubt you’ve got a spare unit that gets things moving again. But what do you do with that broken prime mover? If nothing else, be selective about which motors you send to be rewound. The payoff, you see, will be much greater if you simply replace the defective motor, even if the purchase cost exceeds that of a rewind. Introducing the cost issue as a deciding factor implies you can justify the approach you use in getting that machine shaft turning again. Deciding which motors should be scrapped is easy, says the Central Iowa Power Cooperative, which generates and transmits electric power to 13 electric cooperatives in the state. You can use the algorithm they post at http://cipco. apogee.net/mnd/merrovr.asp to guide you through the math. While you’re there, be sure to click on “Index” at the bottom of the page. Those folks in the Hawkeye State seem to know something about motors. It’s one thing to rewind a motor when you’re standing on good ol’ terra firma, but it’s quite another to do it from inside the bowels of a ship at sea. You can, I’m sure, imagine the difficulties involved. It might hearten you to know that our U.S. Navy rewinds motors of all sorts while out on the briny blue. It’s definitely a team effort, as you’ll read when you float your mouse over to www.navy.mil and enter the numeral 9744 in the search box. “Rewind Shop Shows Fine Motor Skills,” an article by Journalist 3rd Class Fletcher Gibson, USS Enterprise Public Affairs, reveals some of the challenges that sailors must overcome to keep our vessels ship shape. Your tax money at work find useful. Some of it even applies The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ofto motors and associated systems. For fice of Energy Efficiency and Renewexample, it wasn’t hard to uncover a able Energy (EERE) has a for Pub:Coldpage about Ad 4.5625X7.5 9/12/07 4:50 PM Web site motors and energy, where Cold Weather Ad Final Weather full of information that you might EERE posts its output. The motor tips To Call Chromalox for Your Freeze-Protection Needs ® Chromalox has the hottest line of cold-weather products in the industry to keep your workers warm and your equipment safe. From heat tracing cable and controls to blower heaters, convection heaters, radiant heaters, and drum and enclosure heaters . . . we have a large selection in stock and ready to ship! Call us at 1-800-443-2640. Or visit our website at www.chromalox.com. All You Need Is Here Copyright © 2007, Chromalox, Inc. October 2007 www.PLANTSERVICES.com 71 http://cipco.apogee.net/mnd/merrovr.asp http://cipco.apogee.net/mnd/merrovr.asp http://www.navy.mil http://www.chromalox.com http://www.chromalox.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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Plant Services - October 2007 Contents Monetize It Letters Step into the Blogosphere What it Takes to be a Leader Up and Running Crisis Corner What Works From the Summit Treat Them Right Access Control Out of the Woods Show Me, Don't Guess Condition Assessment Made Easy The Air Above the Floor Power to the Prime Movers In the Trenches Illuminating Maintenance

Plant Services - October 2007

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