SB323R General Electric Bus Plugs For Sale by MIDWEST
On MIDWEST’s list of “Ten things we will not do with bus plugs” is “We will not sell a bus plug that we have tested only.” In other words, we are not going to take a Square D bus plug and just test it and say it is okay. We are not going to take a Cutler Hammer bus plug and sell it without reconditioning it. We are not going to sell a GE General Electric bus plug unless we have reconditioned it and tested it first. We are not going to sell an ITE bus plug after doing only a “smoke test,” as one really old time electrical contractor was fond of asking us. An old timer’s really scary minimum specification. When he turned it on, he just didn’t want to see any smoke. That was all he was concerned with. So he said. Actually we worked with him for decades and he always came back because he knew we did everything, including reconditioning and testing the bus plugs, anyway. We are not going to sell a Siemens bus plug as is, even for temporary use. We are not going to sell a Westinghouse bus plug after reconditioning and testing, if it still does not pass our final quality control inspection. All these statements are a repeat of the basic same “We Will Not Test Only” from the list of ten things we will not do with bus plugs. Sometimes it can be enlightening to say one thing six different ways, if it is making an important point. For quality and safety, pleonasm may be your friend.
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We asked MIDWEST’s Switchgear Shop for an example of a replacement bus plug problem or defect that would not be picked up by standardized reconditioning and testing procedures. Procedures that might be found in published data. We were looking for something that went directly to the value of experience. The value of quality workmanship. Here’s a quick example from one of MIDWEST’s switchgear Engineering Technicians.
He spoke of a Federal Pacific bus plug, catalog number LSP 1436SN, 600 volt, 400 amp, just as an example. He said it could just as well be a Cutler Hammer Bus Plug catalog number HD 1364N, or a replacement Square D bus plug or Westinghouse bus plug. It didn’t make a difference. A service company could simply test, or repair or completely recondition a bus plug. Then perform the tests that look for current or voltage related problems. Do the quality control physical and mechanical inspection. The reconditioned Square D bus plug could look and perform so well that you might think it was brand new. But as part of the quality control, veteran Engineering Technicians
Cutler Hammer HD1364N Bus Plug For Sale by MIDWEST
know to double check the nameplate of the reconditioned bus plug with what they actually have. They said this could very easily be missed, because the nameplate is always correct, almost. The last error he found was a bus plug that had a neutral indicated in the catalog number on the nameplate, like the two just mentioned, but actually did not have the neutral bus. It had been removed. It came into the Switchgear Shop that way, as was determined by inspecting other bus plugs in the same lot. Just a detail, a really big detail. So standardized tests can not replace experience and quality workmanship.
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If you read the recent information on Facebook beating Myspace by managing in “white space,” rather than in a formal business management environment, you have a good idea how MIDWEST makes many decisions to improve its web site for our customers. We make so called guesses based on conversations and suggestions from our customers. They tell us what they like. And in doing so, they are the white space between all the seasoned directives we get from the marketing professionals. The ‘world wide web’ is still exciting uncharted territory. There are not many years of prior art.
In response to customer white space chatter, MIDWEST set up a web site specifically directed at those looking for buyers of bus plugs. Hence, the domain name www.busplugsbuyer.com. You see here the results of white space management. This specific target site makes it easier for those that have bus plugs to sell to find us in general. Of course, they could find MIDWEST specifically if they already knew we existed. But, for those that don’t know who MIDWEST is, they might make a general search for buyers of bus plugs. Then go from the general to the more specific. Specifically, whether a GE General Electric bus plugs, Square D bus plugs, Cutler Hammer bus plugs, ITE Bus Plugs, or Federal Pacific bus plugs, it doesn’t make a difference. According to our customers, they would first search for a bus plug buyer and then go from there. This is all very simple from the seller’s point of view.
