Hello Future4200 community, I have been follow the page for a few weeks now and this is my first post. I recently took over, run and manage a ethanol extraction and white film distillation process is the beautiful PNW. It has been a hard and fulfilling position and I am grateful every day.
With that being said, our Delta Cup-30 needed it’s belt replaced.
This is the first time I have encountered this problem and I was uncertain of how to handle it. So our first attempt we forced the new belt on as if we were putting on a bike chain. this worked for the first 2 cycles but the new belt shot off after making the machine shock so hard that it hopped a couple times.
Our second attempt was a bit better but it’s still shaking to hard. The whole machine moves with the wheels locked and even if I placed anti-shock pads under the wheels I fear there may be an internal issue.
My initial thought is that the red lever under the machine released the tension and I later found this to be correct with a bit of direction from a previous manager, who was helping out of the kindness of there heart. So I loosened the 4 bolts that hold the tension wheel in place, moved the lever with ease and replaced the belt. I had my partner pull the lever with all his strength as I tightened the bolts with all I had by hand.
At first this seemed to work better than ever but after the first cycle the machine started to act up again.
My thought was that the bolts aren’t tight enough and there wasn’t enough tension. So we applied as much force as we can. Which is saying something. we are 2 big guys. As the wheel is held in place I used an impact for maximum security. While also making sure not to over tighten and possibly break something.
Alas this didn’t even finish it’s cycle before acting up on us. So at this point I am at a loss and could really use some advice from anyone with experience with this. I have reached out to Delta but the company has been absorbed by another entity and I am uncertain as to whom yet.
If you made it to the end of this message, Thank you for taking the time and I hope you have a great night 