Today was Saturday, and I woke up at 6:30AM, and it was still dark outside. The weather is definitely much colder than what it was in San Antonio, TX.
My coworker and I arrived at the customer's site around 7:30AM, and we started taking apart the stuff that prevent us from taking out the spindle. The machine was FA450-III with aluminum chips all over the places. Apparently, spindle installation was not a "hard" job, when I said hard job I meant a job that required a lot of thinking. Instead, spindle installation was a dirty job. You would get all your clothes dirty with oils, coolants, metal chips, and whatever you could think of.
First of all, we had to remove all the hydraulics hoses that connected to the spindle, and then took off the air hoses that running through the spindle as well. The process of doing that required labeling everything that we remved or disconnected. After we had done that we proceeded to remove control box off the spindle. However, before we could remove the control box we had to disconnect the wires from or to spindle. The customer did not have any crane so the only option we had was the fork lift, we proceeded using fork lift to pick the control box, and set it aside so we could get into the spindle unit without any hinderance.
We used the threaded rod to push out the spindle slowly, and once it was out about 75%, we again used the fork lift to pull out the spindle. We had to remove the spindle cap so we could run the wire for the new spindle.
After hours of working, we finally had the new spindle put into the machine, and on Monday we will test if it works or not.
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