[TheForge] A Balancing act

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Time to replace the shaft?
Widen the distance between pillow blocks?

On Mar 4, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Steve Bloom <sabloom at ironflower.com> wrote:

On 3/4/2015 9:53 AM, CGRAF wrote:
> Without doing a lot of dismantling can you see into the impeller in any way?
It's an old Champion blower - so more fan than impeller.   I dismantled it this morning.  I did not find anything like a smoking gun.  Fan balanced as best as I could test, the shaft was maybe 5 thous out in places (spun it on the lathe and ran a dial indicator over the length) and that is with some rust pitting.  Unit still shakes a bit but I'll live with it.

Thanks guys for the suggestions. Maybe I can finally get back to the stack of blades waiting in the dry box!

Steve
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