What i come across quite often ( As promised Tony i took a few pics)

[Darkwood]

This is a control panel for a cutter machine apparently its been like this years with no cover and runs 4 x 400v motors ... the mechanical side is just as bad but believe this give the state of the machine the best reflection on this forum.

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Now does that untidy domestic board look that bad after all

 

[Bobster]

Now I deal with a lot of panels like this. I think that tops them, never had floating contactors to deal with haha.

 

[Stuuk1]

I used to swap a lot of large panels out and only come across one with bits hanging off the back of the door, kept getting belts all day!

 

[Darkwood]

At least your has some sense of order and i promise i havent ragged it out a bit for effect that is as i found it ... im fitting a panel i built tomoz so will put a before and after set -up but as for functional this panel did while it worked do as it was intended but lacked basics like O/L protection on motors or fully functional e-stop system.

 

[Stuuk1]

I always wish I had taken photos through my early working years but for some reason you don't..

Did find this though a while back and if you scroll down to the last picture, all the panels you see we're my panels, sadly closed but never mind

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/leisure-sites/51341-kentish-town-baths-may-2010-london.html

 

[Knobhead]

Now I deal with a lot of panels like this. I think that tops them, never had floating contactors to deal with haha.

Stops vibration! Good god, practical engineering. Both are dog rough, but..................

 

[Darkwood]

Well new one in tomoz and this time not even owt wrth robbing out of the old one.... well except for a hand full of terminal blocks... no spoils this time :nonod:

 

[Knobhead]

HeHe, have fun DW. Cake and milk time if it goes right first time.

 

[Knobhead]

Muck and nettles if it doesn't

 

[shanky887614]

discard

 

[Darkwood]

I'll ...if i remember take a pic of the new panel its plc driven so easily altered but had a trial set-up and run and so far so good... fitting remote E-stops and gate switches tomoz as well as setting up the light sensors..... comical thing is the guy runs it asked how he can adjust the product now without machine shutting down because of my guard switches wont allow him to push the products into the rollers with his hands ... i said thats why im fitting them... but ive always done that i know what im doing .....

DOH!!!! Always design it as if a monkey was working it ..now thats my guideline it is more stringent than than any safety legislation or regulation i know.

 

[Knobhead]

Just accept one fact, an idiot is far more ingenious than you ever thought you were. They win every time!

 

[Darkwood]

Well a tad more organised now! ....


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[shanky887614]

Just accept one fact, an idiot is far more ingenious than you ever thought you were. They win every time!

did you hear about the guy that lost 2 fingers?

he lost a finger on a machine and the hse got involved.

the hse inspected it and it was deemed safe so they asked the guy how he lost it, he a different finger in same hole and lost another lol

 

[Knobhead]

Well a tad more organised now! ....
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Did it work though? :yes:

 

[Darkwood]

well we used original magic eyes and the oringinal set up was backwards to common sense and the posts holding the IR emitters and reflectors wobbled like f..... took a few extra hours of remounting and setting up but yes it worked...... not bad seen as though we had a verbal of how it worked from a guy limited in english ... supprised myself :yes:

 

[Knobhead]

I got lumbered with we need to fit light curtains to XXXX. Everything fine until the plant started. One end swayed side to side the other up and down! I surprised myself. (Didn't realise I had so many swear words in my vocabulary). The plant was 2nd hand in 1965 when it was rebuilt on a new site. It was knackered back in 65, 40 more years of corrosive crap in the mean time hadn't done it any favours. That project got quietly shunted to one side.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Did it work though? :yes:

It did ..... after he modified it so it was like the old one.