New Adventure for Webb-Elec
Something a little different this week! Continue reading to find out the latest new adventure for Webb-Elec! 🚂⚙ We recently received this screwjack unit in our workshop for repairs. The unit is used to lift rolling stock on a preserved railway to enable engineers to safely carry out maintenance. The repair included a full overhaul […]
Luke’s Latest Project
Recently our apprentice Luke has moved into the office joining our Technical Sales Team. Luke’s Latest project was to find a replacement for a customer’s existing obsolete gearmotor. Photos of the original were sent over via email & Luke used these to source the original technical drawing. He then selected a modern equivalent unit taking […]
New Engineering Team Member
Here’s our MD Julian Webb giving a warm welcome to our new engineering team member, Russell. Russell has many years of experience in the electro-mechanical engineering industry and is a great addition to our team with his varied skillset. He is already fitting in very well assessing units, getting stuck in, and bringing a cheeky […]
Demag KBA Brake Motor
Here we have a Demag KBA range brake motor that has recently arrived for repair. Can you spot the obvious fault? This particular motor is used to drive a rubber top chain conveyor; the application is to drive the belt forward with stops / starts every few seconds. The picture shows the remains of a keyway […]
Technical Sales Assistant Update!
Introducing our new Technical Sales Assistant Luke. Luke has been with Webb-Elec for almost 2 years, starting as an apprentice on the shop floor he has excelled in his achievements. He is particularly adept at dynamic balancing and is our current balancing king👑. Luke has now taken a step up the ladder and has joined […]
Team Leader Update
Here’s our MD Julian Webb congratulating Barrie Harper who has recently been promoted to Workshop Team Leader. Barrie has been with Webb-Elec for 17 years and in that time has gained a wealth of knowledge in the repair of all types of electric motors including DC, 3 and single phase AC motors, slipring motors and […]
IOSH Managing Safely Course
Big congratulations to our Assistant Operations Co-ordinator Jobey Godfrey for completing his IOSH Managing Safely Course. Having taken on his current role in 2022, Jobey has become increasingly proficient in co-ordinating all areas of the workshop and site engineering teams. Our areas of work are very varied; we will often be supporting a steel processing […]
Disc Pack Couplings for Machine & Gearmotor Redesign
Here are 2 new Disc Pack couplings rated at 4000Nm each ready for delivery to the customer. This is part of a project in a brick works where a large obsolete gearmotor will be replaced with a new SEW Eurodrive gear brake motor for a Hoist Drive in the pallet stores of one of our […]
Motor & Fan Repairs
We’ve been pretty busy lately with a lot of large motor & fan repairs in our engineering workshop. In the picture you can see a large 132kw industrial centrifugal fan unit that we repaired and rebuilt along with a 287kw ABB DC motor repair and a new 355kw AC motor which we supplied for a […]
ABB DC Motor Overhaul
One of our standard repair processes is the overhaul of industrial DC motors. These are the main workhorse for steel and metal producing companies where they often drive a drawbench which pulls the steel or metal that is being processed. These types of shunt wound DC motors are very useful for this application as they […]