New Adventure for Webb-Elec
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]