2024 Maintenance Event Procedure (Updated 1/2/24) 2024 Maintenance Event Changes (Updated 1/2/24) | Maintenance Event Tutorial Tutorials should be used as an overall suggestion not 100% accurate |
2024 Maintenance Event Judging Sheet (Updated 1/2/24) |
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Questions accepted up until 10/4/24. Questions can be asked at the pre-competition meeting on Monday, October 7, in in New Orleans.
Question | Answer | Date |
In the revised version, is the Safety Supervisor allowed to record the electrical checks or does it have to be the Electrician that records them? | Any team member can record the results from electrical checks unless it specifically requires the Electrician to. | 1/3/24 |
Page 19 Section I, 3 calls for an electrical check sheet but no sheet is included with instructions. | Go to Rocky Mountain Resource website. Please look on the Pump Maintenance main page dashboard under Equipment Information. Bottom link: Electrical Check list. | 1/8/24 |
Since the nozzle/flange bolt install is different, will be use the same washer/lock washer/nut orientation be applicable? | Although it isn’t a practical way to install these washers (should be two flats and one lock), the bolts supplied are too short. To keep expenses down, we are staying with the same number of fasteners with different orientation. See photo below.
| 1/25/24 |
Procedure: I-1 Referencing A-10 Are all team members required to be locked out until the pump is set? Using the principle of the verbiage of A-10. | Yes. Nothing has changed here since last year. Please refer to G.11 for additional guidance. | 1/29/24 |
How far away is the box that you place the pump into to the pump cradle? | Depends on the table being used. No matter which of the two tables are listed, the 20x20 pump laydown area must be centered on the table. Please refer to the Work Table Cradle/Eye Bolt Location drawing for additional assistance. | 1/29/24 |
Once the pump rebuild is complete, can we attach the hoist chain straight to the lifting bail and raise it out of the cradle without the sling and go straight to the tank? | No. You must use the sling, set in the marked area on the work table. Prior to attaching the chain to the lifting bale | 2/6/24 |
How tall is the water tank? Ground to top lip of tank | Overall height of the pump station including the caster’s is 47. The casters are 6 | 2/28/24 |
Section D rule #4 states to put the replacement bolts for the suction plate back in the same location as the original bolts. Later in section D rule 14 it says the bolts will be at the 3:00 and 9:00 position. Just to clarify, if a team prior to our team, puts the bolts in the wrong position, we will not be penalized for installing the replacement bolts in the 3:00 and 9:00 position? | No | 2/28/24 |
What length chain fall was used in the Maintenance event. Harrington CX005-? | The lifting chain w/hook is 10 ft | 2/29/24 |
If someone besides the electrician is writing down the voltage on the outside of the safety zone. What dictates a non penalized way to hand the clipboard and info back across the safety zone line if the walls extend infant upward? I know the electrician can leave and move freely out the zone while the cover is closed. is that the only restriction for us to also pass the safe zone and hand over the clipboard? | The only reason for the Safety Area is the test port cover for the voltage test station. Also, see During the Event (General): Rule No. 19 for more clarification. | 3/7/24 |