Problems with extractor

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sweet bee

April 28, 2014, 10:00:15 PM
I purchased an Maxant 3100p 9 frame electric extractor last spring. I only used it twice. Tonight I set it to harvest a little honey and it won't spin fast enough to spin the honey out. I only put three frames in so it's not unbalance....Does anyone have a clue as to what I need to do?

Angie
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would
not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything You gave me"

~Erma Bombeck

BeeMaster2

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April 28, 2014, 10:15:03 PM
Quote from: sweet bee on April 28, 2014, 10:00:15 PM
I purchased an Maxant 3100p 9 frame electric extractor last spring. I only used it twice. Tonight I set it to harvest a little honey and it won't spin fast enough to spin the honey out. I only put three frames in so it's not unbalance....Does anyone have a clue as to what I need to do?

Angie

Assuming that there is nothing in the extractor slowing it down like a blown out frame or honey high enough to touch the basket, it is probably a problem with the motor or the bearings.
Check to see if it can spin freely. The bottom of the shaft may have some honey that dried up making it too hard for the motor to turn. This is my best bet. Take it apart and clean the area where the shaft sits.
It could be the controller. With no frames in it, plug the motor directly into the extension cord. It it is still slow, it is not the controller.
Make sure there is not something between the basket and the wall.
Let me know what you find .
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

10framer

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April 28, 2014, 11:47:53 PM
needs grease?  if you washed it thoroughly maybe you washed the food grade grease off of the moving parts?  not sure about the maxant extractors so i'm just guessing.

Kathyp

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April 29, 2014, 12:03:41 AM
my manual needs to be oiled with FGMO. 
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

GSF

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April 29, 2014, 06:52:19 AM
Not trying to insult your intelligence but, do you know most extractors has a speed control? That would be my line of oversight.
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - then you know your nation is doomed.

tefer2

#5
April 29, 2014, 09:05:37 AM
Call Jake at Maxant!

BeeMaster2

#6
April 29, 2014, 12:42:18 PM
A lot of good ideas, one of them should fix it.
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

sweet bee

#7
April 30, 2014, 05:53:18 AM
Thank you for all of the responses! My husband noticed that a screw was out of the collar (I guess it holds the shaft) He was able to fix it! PHEW! Crisis adverted! LOL

Angie
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would
not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything You gave me"

~Erma Bombeck

BeeMaster2

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April 30, 2014, 12:54:45 PM
Quote from: sweet bee on April 30, 2014, 05:53:18 AM
Thank you for all of the responses! My husband noticed that a screw was out of the collar (I guess it holds the shaft) He was able to fix it! PHEW! Crisis adverted! LOL

Angie

It figures, the one thing no one mentioned was the problem.  :-D
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin
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