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Here are some examples of
the importance of the need for
periodic maintenance. In two of
the pictures the corrosion on
the battery cables will cause
many issues; shorter battery
life due to batteries not
charging fully and having to
work harder because of the bad
connections. It will also
shorten the battery charger life
by overheating it. During the
cleaning of the battery
terminals two of the battery
cable nuts had to be replaced
because they were worn 3/4 of
the way through. The other three
pictures are examples of loose
wires, this machine had
intermittent functions for about
a week before it completely
stopped working. I found that
there were two wires completely
loose and out of the switch and
other terminals you can see here
were also at least 3/4 of a turn
loose and most were 1 1/2 turns
loose. This break down and
service call could have been
avoided by purchasing an Annual
Service Contract from Timbers
Equipment Services LLC. The
prevention of this one service
call plus the down time and loss
of production to the customers
job will have paid for more than
half of the cost of an Annual
Service Contract, where the
customer gets 4 visits in a
year, all these problems would
have been caught and handled at
that time, on a scheduled visit,
rather than an emergency with
down time. |
