Re: GLENN RA Bearing

["Glenn Gombert" <glenngombert@hotmail.com>]

Tom,

  Sounds very good....looks like things are on track for a Spring delivery 
of MICHAEL & GLENN...Just in time for the weather to clear up in Ohio too...

GG.


>From: Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>
>To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
>Subject: GLENN RA Bearing
>Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 16:52:29 -0600
>
>I just assembled the RA bearing for GLENN.  This is always a little
>exciting in that I need to cool the shaft and heat the ball bearings to
>make the assembly.  If one does not get them positioned correctly before
>the hot bearings cool and the cold shaft warms up, then you are left with a
>mess.  There are two parts of the assembly that have to go between the two
>bearings, and there is always a chance that I will forget one.  ARNE has
>one part backwards because of this.  But don't worry, that will be the last
>thing to fail.
>
>Normally I do this operation in the kitchen and put the shaft in the
>freezer and the bearings in the oven.  Today, I have a big freezer out the
>balcony door, so I put the shaft there and just heated the bearings with a
>heat gun.  I think it is at the moment as cold out as it is in my freezer.
>
>This means that we will shortly be ready to start wiring up GLENN.
>
>Tom Droege
>
>

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