I noticed that there is a grease zert on the housing of the motor and that the bearings are sealed. Greasing sealed bearings will blow the a seal out on the bearing and allow dirt to get into it and drastically reduce the bearing's life span. If the motor runs continuously you might want to give it one pump of grease each month at the most. Otherwise you should never have to grease the bearing.
Maybe lightning struck the exposed end of the shaft into the air. And there are dark spots in the paint on the edges of the cooling fins--was paint chipped away because lightning struck the motor housing?
Little ones. The gentleman you need to contact is Bobby Cormier, with Orangefield Oil Supply. He knows about everything that goes on in Orangefield, and he has any oil Field supplies and any needs you may have in the oil field
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Tell us you're not a lineman without telling us you're not a lineman. I love it. That's a farmer's resourcefulness. We would all be hungry without people like him. "Come with me" "And you'll be..."🤣
I work in the bowling business and the machines that I work on are Brunswick machines and they have a single phase 1 horsepower motor on them and back in the day what's the same thing he had a bearing go bad or something and you had to get in there and work on them he always had a spare motor and you'd switch the motors out take the bad one in the shop disassemble it put new bearings in it and service the motor the motors at the originally came with were GE Motors they were absolute workhorses so if I've done this once I've done it a hundred times and like they say a motor is a motor is a motor I'm doing it in the field like that is no different than the bench other than the heat you got to deal with but thanks for taking us along Zach as a machinist mechanic an fabricator even though I'm not an oil man I recognize all the aspects of what you do and I really appreciate the work that you do I wished I lived closer I would donate time to help you out keep up the cool videos and again thanks for taking us along
I used your sound clip at the end to upload a white noise idling loop to my channel. It took me a really long time to find a good quality long enough audio clip with no wind noise before i settled on yours.
I love the oilfield stuff for sure man but truly enjoy just seeing whatever you have going on. Equipment....projects. hell you could show off your morning coffee and id still watch. I just genuinely enjoy the content and your rambling commentary cause it feels like I'm just watching an old friend do stuff around the house. So keep on doing what your doing. I'll stick around.
Another fix for open keyways is to use a gib-head key, with either single or double head. The double head gib key is installed on the sheave before the sheave is placed on the shaft, the single can be on the sheave or shaft just as long as you dould check the head is on the captured side. A bit surprised that you have that horizontal mill setup for an endmill rather than a slot cutter, which is where they really excell. I suppose it's what you had on hand, slot cutters will allow woodruff keys for the captive option.
They would fire until the air cooled off requiring reuse of the glow plugs. I used to run one pulling a lowboy all winter long. There were times when I couldn't plug in the block heaters.
Just an idea from a "beginner" electrical hobbyist, you may be able to fit a wash plate to one of the ends of the rotor on each motor and brushes contacting the wash plate then ground that to the frame or a neutral ground it should jump that instead of overcoming the resistance of the bearing preferably removing that point of failure for any circumstance where fualt grounding is necessary.
I work with lots of motors connected to frequency drives. Older motors dont have grounded bearings and they fool freq drives into thinking theres a ground fault. They sell motors that have a "grounding ring" installed. So my point being that i could see a corrolation with the lightning strike hurting the bearings. My two cents anyhow. Like your videos a lots.
Close enough is good enough Zach. That was the way of the old patch and A LOT of wells were drilled and produced that way. And if it is making $$, do the looks really matter?
It's your stuff and if it works for you then cool, but I'm not gonna lie, it makes me look at you a certain type of way when you just smacked it willy nilly, it's the same type of look i might give someone if i watched them eat their own boogers. I've installed many bearings with a hammer, but there's still a little bit of technique that should be considered. Just because you don't have a press doesn't mean you can't do it right.
bearings are perfectly round. and when you hit them with a HV/A it deforms them slightly... after a few hours of regular use at a deformed state, they start to self clearance and become out of balance, dragging the sides
Maybe you could put a radiator in front of the fan on the engine to make it balance better, and if that doesn't work, maybe some fenders a front bumper and a grill. 😄
Zach, you are NOT a hack! You are an oilfield man and the work in the oilfield is not like building/tuning pianos. Good enough is good enough, if it works, it works! That's the way of the patch for over 100 years. More power to you man!
I know that I'm kinda late to the dance here on your videos, but it's not all that expensive to put AC in a truck. It would sure save you time over stopping work or getting over heat stroke. Just a thought.
I was wondering since Electricity always takes the path of least resistance,would a small ground tower that is higher than the pump jack be a diversion enough for the lightning to be redirected to the ground and save the charge to the bearings???
