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100 years on, quality is still the hallmark of our work

12/1/2021

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By Steve Ormondroyd, Workshop Manager

January 2021 marks the start of the centenary year of Westin Drives, a company where quality has long been the hallmark of our work.

Take an electric motor repair. Where some repairers are content to slap on new bearings and send it on its way, we go the extra mile. For example, we have the best diagnostic and test equipment for motors – plus excellent balancing equipment and capacity.

Consider the attached pictures, above, of two bearing housings from the same motor. If the drive end bearing housing is examined closely, punch marks can be seen at 90° around the housing. They were made by a motor 'repairer' in Yorkshire.

The idea is by centre punching the housing, the resulting burr will stop the bearing moving in the housing. But this faulty technique will almost certainly put the rotor out of alignment, leading to premature bearing failure. When our engineers repair a bearing housing, it is bored, sleeved and machined to the correct tolerance according to SKF. 

This motor came to us because of a bearing failure. Considering the previous attempt at a repair, that was inevitable – particularly as the rated speed for this type of motor is 10980 RPM. 

We have now bored and bushed the housings, balanced the rotor, fitted the correct bearings and returned it to the customer. The correctly machined housings may be seen below.
The bearing housings after the repair.

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Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 6NA. Phone: 01484 453399
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  • About
    • Meet the team
    • Apprentices
    • Accreditations
    • Industries served
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    • 5S workplace organisation
    • Job Vacancies
    • Privacy & Cookies >
      • Modern Slavery
  • Repairs
    • Electric motors
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    • Pumps
    • Fans
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    • Electro-Mechanical
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    • Condition Monitoring >
      • Thermal Imaging
      • Vibration Analysis
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  • Products
    • Lenze >
      • Inverters >
        • Lenze i510
        • Lenze i550
        • i550 protec IP66
        • Lenze 8400 Baseline
        • Lenze 8400 StateLine
        • Lenze 8400 HighLine
      • Servo drives >
        • Lenze 8400 TopLIne
        • Lenze 9400
        • Lenze i700
        • Lenze i950
      • Lenze motors >
        • Lenze MF
        • Lenze m300
        • Lenze m500
        • Lenze SDSGA
        • Lenze MCA
        • Lenze MQA
        • Lenze MDxKS
        • Lenze MCS
        • Lenze m850
      • PLC >
        • Lenze c300
        • Lenze 3200 c
        • Lenze c500
        • Lenze C750
      • Gearbox >
        • Lenze g500
        • Lenze g700
        • Lenze mpr-mpg
      • IoT Gateway >
        • Lenze X500 IoT Gateway
      • Software >
        • Lenze Easy Essentials
        • Lenze Easy Advanced
        • Lenze Easy Professional
      • HMI >
        • Lenze p300
        • Lenze p500
        • Lenze v200
        • Lenze v800c
        • Lenze v800p
      • Previous products >
        • Lenze 9300 servo inverter
        • Lenze 9300 PLC servo inverter
        • Lenze 9300 vector inverter
        • Lenze 8200 vector frequency inverter
        • Lenze 8200 Motec
        • Lenze SMD inverters
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