[R-390] OT - ART-13 info / help / parts / suggestions

[Tisha Hayes]

Dredging way back into my memory, the tooling that the machinists had that
could have done that is called a "brake press". I never did any of the
machinery work but could double check their machine alignments with a dial
gauge, calipers and those little plastic pieces of string to measure gaps
between metal parts when they are bolted together (I have a mental block on
the commercial name of the plastic spaghetti stuff).

I was just the engineer but had to be on-hand during overhauls to make
field decisions on changes. Electrical/ Electronic/ RF was my primary area
but when you work in the oil industry you also need to know mechanical and
chemical engineering because you never knew what sort of project they would
assign to you.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Randy and Sherry Guttery <
comcents at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On 12/15/2011 12:17 PM, Tisha Hayes wrote:
>
>> Is it just the faceplate that is bent in? Has it crushed or warped the
>> chassis or frame?
>>
>> In the past I had success in fixing mangled front panels by using a sheet
>> of plywood on a concrete floor and a piece of 2" x 4" with a mallet to
>> bang
>> on the 2x4 to flatten out the facepiece.
>>
>>  I think your method may be usable here - after a fashion...   That is a
> "corner" piece - so it has to be "restored" to a 90 degree corner.  Being
> aluminum - probably "doable".  The buyer decided $40.00 was enough to
> satisfy him - so the claim went in this AM. I've also heard from a couple
> of people that think that corner piece is replaceable (along with the chart
> holder doo-dad) - so there are "possibilities".  Main thing is to make the
> buyer happy (and he seems to be quite reasonable about this - I've had some
> buyers who wouldn't have been happy with anything less than "NEW"!).
>
> thanks for the input!!!
>
> --
> randy guttery
>
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>
>


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