Aaron Equipment Company Shop's Competitive Advantage

What differentiates Aaron Equipment from its competitors:

• Full service shop capabilities:
  • cleaning 
  • painting
  • light fabrication
  • welding
  • machining
  • Sub-contractors for heavy machining, fabrication (including ASME code and repair), plating and polishing
• Experienced mechanics and welders
• Mechanical engineering (analysis and design)
• Electrical engineering (repair, modification or new controls)
• Process engineering

Provide information concerning the performance of the equipment, problems and maintenance records. Explain what the equipment was originally designed for, what is it now used for and what the future process will be. Help Aaron understand your application. 

1. Visual inspection of mixer upon receipt
2. Run motor with drive attached if possible
3. Steam clean and re-inspect
4. Measure blade to bowl clearances (sigma, plow) or inspect blades edges for wear (other agitated mixers)
5. Check external gearing wear, tooth condition and shape
6. Inspect gear reducer seals for leakage, noise when operating;
   • Inspection of gear through available inspection plants and oil condition (metal filings)
   • Gear reducer teardown and inspection can be performed for additional cost
7. Disassembly and inspect components as they are removed from mixer including: drive, transfer gears, bearings, packing glands, mixer shafts, mixing elements
8. Clean individual components
9. Measure shaft diameters and check runout between centers
10. Check bowl (trough) and end plate thickness (ultrasonic)
11. Confirm any suspect alloys with XARA alloy analyzer (X-ray fluorescence)
12. Use dye penetrant test of shafts and blades as needed
13. Pressure test jacket at 2X pressure rating and inspect for leakage
14. Sandblast frame, bowl and external components
15. The gear reducer will be removed and sent to a local manufacturer of gear reducers for inspection of the gears and seals