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Spare Parts
SPX Cooling Technologies manufactures and inventories cooling tower replacement
parts. Typical lead time is 10 working days. Contact your Marley representative for
emergency service.
Owners should consider maintaining an inventory of critical mechanical components,
such as a fan assembly, gear drive and driveshaft to avoid emergency shutdown of
cooling tower operations. Be sure to furnish the cooling tower serial number when
ordering parts.
Seasonal Shutdown Instructions
Tower
–Drain all tower piping.
During shutdown, follow recommendations in the
Cooling Tower Inspection and
Maintenance
section of this manual before attempting repairs. Apply protective coat-
ing as required to all metal parts. Particular attention should be given to mechanical
equipment supports, drive shaft and drive shaft guards.
Mechanical Equipment
Geareducer – Downtime for 3 months or less
1– Each month, drain water condensate from the lowest point of the Geareducer and
its oil system. Check oil level and add oil if necessary. Operate to coat all interior
surfaces with oil.
2– At start-up, drain water condensate and check oil level. Add oil if necessary. Refer
to the Geareducer User Manual for maintenance and lubrication instructions.
Geareducer – Downtime for 3 months or more
1– If the fan motors have space heaters, operate mechanical equipment one hour
each month.
2– If the fan motors do not have space heaters, operate mechanical equipment one
hour each week.
3– At startup, operate mechanical equipment one hour or until oil is warm, then shut
the equipment down. Drain the oil and refill. Refer to the Geareducer User Manual
for instruction on changing oil. Refer to the Downtime Instructions User Manual for
downtime exceeding six months.
Fan Motors
1– Do not start motor without determining that there will be no interference with free
rotation of the fan drive.
2–Refer to the “Fan Motor” User Manual for additional information.
maintenance
