Torque those bolts! - The importance of torquing base bolts - Case study
How many times have we seen the hold-down bolts being torqued by hand or by using pipes. There is a common mis-conception that more tight is always good. Our team recently had and a Generator set, we were called in to carry out vibration analysis and on-site balancing of the flywheel. The challenge + The first start-up of the machine showed very high vbrations, this was after major over-haul and bearing replacement of the entire set. + The shafts were aligned using laser ali
