Mash Tun Packing Install

Preconditions

• The vessel on which the agitator is installed must be completely empty

• The vessel must be into LOTO procedure

Procedure

• Verify that the preconditions are completed

• Check that the rinsing water inlet is closed (manual ball valve)

• Cut up the braids according to the dimensions on attached document Mash Tun Packing Install Replacement.

• Disconnect from the rammer the hose supplying the rinsing water

• Remove the rammer and leave it to rest on the skirt

• Remove the used braids with an extraction device

• Clean the stuffing box and the shaft with water

• Delicately open the S braid in order to slide it more easily on the shaft

• Delicately move up the 4 braid rings inside the stuffing box (using an unpointed tamper, if necessary). Turn, each time, the braid ring wedge angle by 90° compared to the wedge angle of the previous ring

• Put back the rammer and place it on the support by hand. Slightly press the braids and block the nuts following this position

• Reconnect to the rammer the hose supplying the rinsing water

• Release the LOTO procedure