Blue Diamond® Attachments10
3.4 Broom Wafers
Removing Broom Wafers
See parts diagram for pictures.
1. Place broom on ground and perform
mandatory shutdown procedure (see section
1.3 Mandatory Safety Shutdown Procedure on
page 3).
2. Remove side rubber skirt retainers.
3. Remove motor guard hardware and motor
guard plate.
4. Remove bearing guard hardware and bearing
guard plate.
5. Remove motor plate to broom housing
hardware and remove motor subassembly.
6. Remove bearing plate to broom housing
hardware.
7. Using hoist, raise broom housing o of broom
core. Roll broom core away from bucket.
8. Remove end retainer from one broom
core
end
.
9. Remove wafers.
Replacing Broom Wafers
See parts diagram for pictures.
1. Place broom drum on end with one retaining
plate assembled. Place retaining plate on ground
.
2. Install a new wafer making sure wafer retention
pins are trapped on broom drum bar.
3. Install more wafers. Alternate steel and poly
wafers if using both types. The retention pins
on consecutive wafers should alternate 180°
and be trapped by opposite bars.
4. Install last wafer and install broom drum
retaining plate. Carefully lay the core on its side
.
5. Move core under broom housing and lower
housing on core.
6. Replace bearing plate and motor plate
hardware. Tighten hardware.
7. Replace motor and bearing guard plates and
hardware. Tighten hardware.
8. Reinstall rubber skirting and side skirting
retainers.
9. Tighten hardware.
3.5 Removing and Replacing
Motor
See parts diagram for pictures.
1. Place broom the ground and perform
mandatory shutdown procedure (see section
1.3 Mandatory Safety Shutdown Procedure on
page 3).
2. Remove left side rubber skirt retainer.
3. Remove and cap motor hoses.
4. Remove motor guard hardware and motor
guard plate.
5. Remove motor subassembly from broom
housing.
6. Remove coupler bolt and loosen coupler set
screw. Remove coupler from motor shaft.
7. Remove motor gasket plate hardware, gasket
plates, and gasket.
8. Remove motor can hardware and remove motor.
9. Reassemble in reverse order.
3.6 Removing and Replacing
Bearing
See parts diagram for pictures.
1. Place broom the ground and perform
mandatory shutdown procedure (see section
1.3 Mandatory Safety Shutdown Procedure on
page 3).
2. Remove right side rubber skirt retainer.
3. Remove bearing guard hardware and bearing
guard plate.
4. Remove bearing plate to broom housing
hardware.
5. Loosen bearing lock collar with a drift punch
and hammer. Counter clockwise loosens collar.
6. Remove bearing and bearing plate.
7. Remove bearing plate to bearing hardware to
remove bearing.
8. Reassemble in reverse order. To tighten
bearing lock collar, use hammer and drive
punch. Clockwise movement tightens collar.
3. Maintenance
