Bell System Plant Series Description And Use

BELL SYSTEM PRACTICES
Plant Series
SECTION 649-210-133
Issue 1, April 1969
AT
& TCo Standard
AT-8490 CABLE T>\KE-UP DRIVE
DESCRIPTION AND USE
CONTENTS PAGE 2. DESCRIPTION
1. GENERAL.
2. DESCRIPTION
2.01
The AT-8490 Cable Take-up Drive (Fig. 1)
includes an AT-8490 LIA Cable Take-up
Drive and either an AT-8490 L2A Drive Mounting
or an AT-8490 L3A Drive Mounting.
3. PRECAUTIONS 2
1.01
The AT-8490 Cable Take-up Drive utilizes a
hydraulic motor, a helical gear reducer, a
drive chain, and reel drive to drive a cable reel
that is mounted on a hydraulic loading cable reel
trailer. The unit is intended for use in removing
aerial and underground cable and storing it on a
cable reel.
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5.
MAINTENANCE
4. USE
1.02
The AT-8490 Cable Take-up Drive can be
mounted on a TRUCO or McCABE POWERS
hydraulic loading cable reel trailer. When mounted,
the take-up drive is operated from the truck
hydraulic system at the pole puller outlet. For
vehicles not fitted for a pole puller, the truck
hydraulic derrick system may be used if a valve
is added. The take-up drive is designed to operate
from a hydraulic system that delivers oil at a rate
of 12 to 15 gpm at a pressure between 1800 and
2000 psi.
1.
GENERAL
1.03
The take-up drive can be used with all large
steel reels, up to and including the No. 420
reel, and will develop 5000 pounds pull on the bare
reel head of a No. 417 reel.
1.04
The applicable sections in the Bell System
Practices pertaining to hydraulic loading cable
reel trailers shall be supplementary to this section.
Fig. l-AT-8490 Cable Take-up Drive
2.02
The AT-8490 LlA Cable Take-up Drive consists
of a reel drive sprocket, a drive chain, a
chain guard, a helical gear reducer, a hydraulic
motor, a flexible coupling, and a frame. The LIA
unit is portable and can be removed from one
trailer and assembled to any other trailer that is
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