dArsonval
Electrical
- Mar 21, 2010
- 375
Scrolling through old electric motor repair photographs while self isolating during a pandemic...
Here's a sequence of pictures captured back in November, 2007.
A gentleman in a hurry to leave with an un-repaired D.C. motor came back to the shop a few minutes later asking for additional advice.
"My motor is in the street... how can we get it back in my truck?"
Not the entire shop... but a few of us walked up the street to a freeway off ramp intersection to understand what he was talking about.
Sure enough, a motor was plopped right in the middle of the road.
The laminated Reliance frame motor (a Direct Current motor in an A.C. frame configuration)
riding on a slippery pallet slid out of a pickup truck bed that was not properly secured for transit.
Thankfully, no one was injured.
A couple of pedestrians volunteered to move it out of the way only to lift their heads and say, "What is this? We can't budge it."
Armed with a recently purchased $700.00 iPhone (in 2007), I did what most any American would do.
I captured pictures of the situation. Ha Ha ; )
A passing police officer stopped to provide "moral support", someone ran back to the shop
to retrieve a fork truck, the circumstance was "handled"... and within 7 minutes or so... no trace of the event remained.
Browsing old electric motor repair photos,
John
Here's a sequence of pictures captured back in November, 2007.
A gentleman in a hurry to leave with an un-repaired D.C. motor came back to the shop a few minutes later asking for additional advice.
"My motor is in the street... how can we get it back in my truck?"
Not the entire shop... but a few of us walked up the street to a freeway off ramp intersection to understand what he was talking about.
Sure enough, a motor was plopped right in the middle of the road.
The laminated Reliance frame motor (a Direct Current motor in an A.C. frame configuration)
riding on a slippery pallet slid out of a pickup truck bed that was not properly secured for transit.
Thankfully, no one was injured.
A couple of pedestrians volunteered to move it out of the way only to lift their heads and say, "What is this? We can't budge it."
Armed with a recently purchased $700.00 iPhone (in 2007), I did what most any American would do.
I captured pictures of the situation. Ha Ha ; )
A passing police officer stopped to provide "moral support", someone ran back to the shop
to retrieve a fork truck, the circumstance was "handled"... and within 7 minutes or so... no trace of the event remained.
Browsing old electric motor repair photos,
John