[Sneap] GVM for Tandetron

[Howard Evans]

SNEAPers,

I posted in January a request for help in repairing/replacing our GVM. I am a little late on the follow-up, but thanks for the great advice from everyone who responded! And especially thanks to David O'Brien, who graciously answered my questions on the telephone and immediately supplied a virgin Rotron motor at cost.

Rotron still makes these motors, but only on special order and at a price we didn't want to pay. As it turned out, I was able to get our original motor re-wound at a local motor repair shop. This saved a lot of time because we didn't have to machine the new motor housing to fit into the GVM weldment. We now have everything back together, the tank re-filled with recovered SF6, and the accelerator pumping out ions again.

Howard

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Howard B. Evans, Jr.
Engineer, Materials Laboratory
UES, Inc.
4401 Dayton-Xenia Road
Dayton OH  45432-1894

937-426-6900 ext. 116 (office and voice mail) or ext. 121 (lab)
937-426-5718 fax

hevans at ues.com e-mail
http://www.ues.com web site

"Things should be explained as simple as
possible, but not simpler." -- A. Einstein

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