Thre are many things end users can do to keep their engine’s pumps up and running and out of the shop. Join Chris Mc Loone and Andy Biron to learn more about pump maintenance from the EVT’s perspective.
EVT Talk: Pump Maintenance
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The Ups and Downs of Technician Certification
Certification tests can be a challenge for the emergency vehicle technician. For today, let's look at the purposes of certification testing. First, it provides an evaluation of technician knowledge and understanding. Second, it brings in a third party that can do...
Repair Guru Helped Keep Springfield (MA) FD Running for Nearly 39 Years
Stephen Balboni has done everything from repairing ladder trucks and chainsaws to maintaining air tanks and ordering toilet paper.
Ensuring Safety and Function: The Crucial Role of Fire Apparatus Factory Inspections
Inspections serve as a vital checkpoint, ensuring that every component (pumps, hoses, and safety systems) meet rigorous quality standards.
Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part Three
By Kevin Roberts Last time we left you with this diagram. Figure 1 Our point was to introduce the practical application of unbalanced loads in a series circuit. You wouldn’t have thought it would take this many articles to do so. But the point of...
Talking Trucks: Tires
Chris Mc Loone and Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Advisor Chris Daly discuss the importance of properly maintaining the tires that carry you and your crews to emergency incidents and cover some ways to maintain control of a vehicle in case a tire blowout occurs while responding.
Choosing a Fire Apparatus Mechanic or Service Center
Here are some key factors to consider when selecting a fire apparatus dealer as a repair facility or a technician.
Speaking a Common Language
In this article, I want to cover ways mechanics and firefighters can communicate and work together to solve apparatus problems. Most of these problems come from both sides of the conversation, with both using terms and descriptive statements that one side does not understand.
Fire Chief Considerations: The Fleet Manager
Fleet managers may be full-time positions within the fire department structure or they may be roles assigned under another position.
Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part Two
At the end of the last article, I left some of you with a bit of a cliffhanger. But it was a cliffhanger only for some of you because the rest of you clearly understood all the ramifications of the principle set forth in that article.
‘What We Live For’: W.S. Darley and Co. in Chippewa Falls (WI) Makes Life-Saving Fire Pumps
The facility specializes in manufacturing fire pumps, with a team of skilled machinists and engineers.
Unbalanced Loads and Voltage Drops, Part One
Today let’s consider the series circuit in which the intended loads are not balanced. In a past life, I trained for a company who had on their curriculum staff the originator of this idea. For the moment I will skip the introduction to his question, but he asked what would happen if we connected a low wattage bulb in series with a high wattage bulb.
