OC Maintenance
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 3/25/24) |
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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 |
| Regarding Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures and sequence, if both the electrician and safety supervisor are already locked out, and other team members are in the process of locking out, can the pump be hooked up and start to be lifted, or is it necessary for all team members to be locked out before the pump is lifted? | Please see Section A.10. If the Safety Supervisor has declared the pump safe to remove, the hook can then be connected to the lift bale but cannot be removed until all members are locked out. | 3/21/24 |
| E3) The wordage is lock/flat washers/nuts... Should it not be flat washer/lock washer/nuts? As per E5 Just want to confirm | This will be clarified during the summer revision. Please refer to the answer/picture on a previous question on January 25 for the correct orientation. | 3/21/24 |
| I5) Says the electrician must finish filling out the electrical check sheet and safety supervisor will need to sign it... Can the safety supervisor write down the voltage readings if the electrician calls them out? | Yes | 3/21/24 |
| If a team before you installs the flange bolts the wrong way, are the judges going to pull the pump and install the correct way or is the next team's responsibility to re-install them correctly during the rebuild? | Should the team member begin to install the discharge flange bolts incorrectly, the judge will intervene. The penalty served will be time spent to re-install them correctly. | 3/25/24 |
| 1. Is it required to tighten the pump stand in a torque pattern? 2. We have seen in videos that some teams start the pump after it is serviced and then shut-it off before exiting the event. The event description only states "start the pump". Was this a penalty? | 1. Yesthis is on the penalty sheets and will be clarified in the next revision. 2. It was no penalty due to a vague task description, however, is on the penalty sheets now and will be clarified in the next revision. The pump is to be left on before exiting the event. | 3/25/24 |
| On the electrical check sheet, can the safety supervisor check the yes on the "Have all electrical Checks been complete and recorded?" section then sign the paper work, if the electrician verbalizes that all checks have been completed or does the electrician have to be the one to physically check the yes? | Please refer to Section I.5. That is considered finishing the check sheet by the Electrician | 4/8/24 |
| On task G, it states. 5. Lift the pump up high enough to safely clear cradle. 6. Proceed to move the pump to the 20 x 20 marked area on the worktable. 7. Lower the pump onto the designated area on the worktable in the marked area in a vertical position. Detach from the lifting sling. Remove the lifting sling. Attach the chain hook onto the lift bale. I have seen teams bypass this step and lift the pump directly up from the cradle to the wet well. Will this be penalized this year? | it was penalized last year and will be penalized this year as well. | 4/8/24 |
