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Adjusting End Play on Vertical Pump Motors

This new video walks through the steps to adjust and set end play on a typical vertical hollow shaft pump motor. Proper end play adjustment is important to keep the lower bearing from supporting the weight of the rotor and to allow for thermal growth within the motor. The motor in this video has a thrust bearing in the top and a standard ball-type guide bearing in the bottom, which is typical of vertical pump motors. There are other bearing arrangements with somewhat different procedures for setting end play, but here we’ll be working with the most common arrangement and procedure. 

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For tandem operation, the motor winding must be duplicated exactly as found. The only change that should not cause an issue is the wire combination, if the area per turn is within 2% of the original. Any other changes could result in unequal load sharing between the two motors.

Douglass Krecsy
Marketing & Industry Awareness Committee Member
West Fraser Electro/Mechanical, Ltd.
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada 

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