Monthly free tool giveaway for young, aspiring and apprentice engineers in the UK

Fletcher Moorland Ltd — 25/09/2023

Monthly free tool giveaway for young, aspiring or apprentice engineers in the UK.

I've been running this on LinkedIN since the start of 2023.

Kicking off the week, a little later in the month than I had planned, is September's #GetTooledUp free tool draw for young, apprentice or aspiring engineers.

This month I've got five sets of nut-runners, or nut-spinners, whatever you may call them, to give away.

When I was first on the bench, many years ago with a basic Halfords toolkit. These were the things I really wanted. I was stripping down small electric motors and had to keep pestering the other lads to borrow theirs. Easier to use than a socket set or spanner, these Wera Tools UK sets are a brilliant addition to any tool box.

If you are, you know, or you work with any young, aspiring or apprentice engineers. Get them to like this post, follow me and comment below to be in the draw with a chance to win one of these sets.

I'm doing this every month to give those starting off their careers in engineering a helping hand to get decent quality tools in their toolbox.

Three things that are needed to be in with a chance.
1 - Follow or connect with me.
2 - Like the post
3 - Leave a comment (Only those who leave a comment will be in the draw)

The draw will take place at midday on Friday 29th September 2023.

Good luck everyone.

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#youngengineers
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A more sustainable approach to electric vehicle component repairs.

Fletcher Moorland Ltd — 25/09/2023

Take a look at this beauty Joe is working on in our electronics workshop.

This is a BAE Systems Hybridrive, Propulsion Control System (PCS) for an electric bus. It is where the power from the onboard batteries is converted from DC to AC, then fed to the TB100 electric traction motor to propel the bus.

Joe, our technical services manager, is carrying out some cold-checks on the unit. He's checking for some common faults we see with these units before we move to a power-on test.

The main printed circuit board (PCB) that you can see might seem quite large. It is, it's one of the the largest PCBs I think we've ever seen being 600mm x 400mm in size. The whole unit is a remarkable feat of engineering, beautifully machined casing, spotlessly clean inside considering it's been strapped to the underside of a London bus for the past 10 years.

Bus and coach operators do cite availability of replacement traction motors and propulsion control units as an issue. Fortunately there is another option, refurbishing the failed ones.

It's great for UK jobs too as we do this work in the UK instead of the units having to be shipped overseas. Creating jobs in fault finding and repair skills is good as far as I'm concerned. We need more with current supply chain shortages. It's also good for sustainability too, I've no idea how much CO2 was used in creating one of these PCS units but I'm going to bet that the repair & refurbishment process uses only 2-3% of what creating a new one does.

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#repairdontreplace
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#electricvehicles
#DrivingAGreenerFuture
#zeroemission
#maintenanceandrepair