Re: Motor Question... Who Makes Grainger's Motors?

On Oct 30, 10:40 am, "Joe AutoDrill" <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The lure of Graingers low prices and availability
is great but for an OEM to depend on them is a
stretch, IMHO.

Good point and thus my search for the motor manufacturer that supplies
Grainer with the specific motors I seek...

Might as well hijack my own thread now... Suppliers sometimes work hard to
be "backward compatible" and sometimes they don't work at it at all...

We have improvided our design on our basic product 3-4 times in 10 years...
And machine #1 will receive 99.9% of my new parts without modification. We
try very hard at it... ....Mostly because *I* don't want to have to
figure out how to fit a new part on an old machine in order to keep a
customer happy when their line is down and they are loosing lots of money a
day...

It would really suck if a motor manufacturer we use went out of business and
they are the only people making a certain frame / size motor. We've only
had one motor manufacturer mess us up in this way and it was Baldor... Hard
to imagine considering we use much less famous motor manufacturers on other
jobs, but they moved the junction box of a small single phase motor to the
side of the motor from the back of the motor... So much for the clearance
issue I thought didn't exist...

Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
(800) 871-5022
01.908.542.0244
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V8013-R

Across the last 22+ years I've seen Dayton, Lincoln and
other motor manufacturers make changes to their motors
which, while not changing the frame size basics, have made
them unsuitable for our use (some of their other electrical
items as well).

If you're a large enough operation to have motors built to
your specification, you may have it better, but for most of
us (smaller than say....GE) you can only go with the flow.

In a couple of instances created by imazingly bad design,
the only option available for replacement motors was
rebuilding the existing motor (s); how embarassing.

On a junction box location/size issue we found we had to
disassemble the motors and then send them through our
machine shop for modification before they could go to
the assembly dept. This was, of course, an situation
which we tried to avoid at all costs: Forcing the customer
to purchase proprietary repair parts only from us; not
good, especially when you're thousands of miles apart.

dennis
in nca

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