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 […]
200kw Refinery Fan Repair
We recently carried out a 200kw Siemens refinery fan repair for one of our metal processing customers. This unit came into us with a reported vibration problem and the requirement for a fast turnaround. We collected the unit on a dedicated vehicle and once offloaded into our workshop the hard work began. The motor was […]
Brick Factory Solution
We recently selected a brick factory solution for a problem they had been experiencing with one of their gearmotors. In the photograph you will see a new SEW Eurodrive brake motor but do you know what the arrangement on the front end is …….. ? Not the obvious pinion gear which is protected for transport […]
Hospital Air Handling Unit Repair
Our site team was recently called out to inspect an air handling unit that had failed at one of our hospital clients. This unit was tucked away from the main plant room and had only just failed when the call came in to us. We responded immediately and our team was on site within the […]
Dynamic Fan Balancing & Laser Alignment
Our site team recently carried out dynamic fan balancing & laser alignment to a large centrifugal fan unit for a local client. Sited on the flat roof of a university departmental building, we had to work around the needs of the client as the work required a full roof shutdown with out-of-hours working. Once on […]
New Engineering Team Member
More good news from us at Webb-Elec as MD Julian Webb welcomes our new engineering team member, Gareth. Gareth has many years of engineering experience having completed a traditional apprenticeship in the steel industry. He then progressed from manufacturing and engineering into the compressor industry, vacuum pumps and then onto hospitals and facilities management. He has […]