AA260M Coal Feeding Problem Fixed "Mostly"

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Post by U235a4 » Sun. Dec. 07, 2008 8:27 pm

Well as some may know I've had a issue this year with my Axeman with feeding coal. After countless conversations with Matt and Greg and covering about ever part other then the known wear in the tube and fliting. I finally broke down to my view on things that the hardest problems are sometimes the easiest and right in front of us. Well that was the case Friday night my wife and daugther went out on the town so I had time to get some things done and for me I watched coal feeding... (HAHA what life) We'll here is what stumped me last year everything worked OK this year the boiler what pretty much a hand feed unit. Now after thinking about it and I thought about this before but not hard, in the spring I replaced the transfer head bearing and that was the only change. Well when I was watching the coal I noticed a lip from the new bearing to the tube, being the bearing was about 1/16-3/32 thicker then the tube the coal would hang up when feeding and the coal after getting high enough would go to fall over like a wave and land in the next lower fliting so I was only getting about 2/3s the coal that made it to that point. BTW I remembered to take a picture before I finished so everyone here could see it. So I got the dremel out and fixed the problem. So for all you AA users out there if you ever replace your Tranfer Head Bearing make sure there is no lip.

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Post by cArNaGe » Sun. Dec. 07, 2008 8:29 pm

Dats a big blurry picture!

Think you could resize it?

edit: NM now its scaled right
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Post by U235a4 » Sun. Dec. 07, 2008 8:29 pm

cArNaGe wrote:Dats a big blurry picture!

Think you could resize it?
check again

 
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Post by cArNaGe » Sun. Dec. 07, 2008 8:30 pm

;p

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