Maintenance work on the superstructure
8.8 Main boom
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8.8.2 Lubricating the telescopic sections
Grease, spare
parts, tools
– A grease gun for the grease nipples on the locking pins.
– A grease gun for the grease nipples on the upper telescopic slide faces.
– A brush or roller for the outer, upper and lower telescopic slide faces.
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Manitowoc Crane Group Germany GmbH recommends using pneumatic
grease spray guns for more effective lubrication of the telescopic slide
faces:
Prerequisites – The truck crane must be level.
– The Mega-Wing-Lift (MWL) must be removed; à Lattice extension
operating manual
.
– The hook block must be unreeved.
– The main boom must be completely retracted and lowered into horizontal
position.
– A rigging mode must have been set up using the telescope positions
required for maintenance as specified in the lifting capacity table;
à Lifting capacity table.
– The RCL code for the current rigging mode must be entered.
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If at the start you set up a rigging mode under which the telescope posi-
tions 44/100/0/0 are released in the context of the corresponding lifting ca-
pacity table, this rigging mode allows you to perform the complete main-
tenance work on the main boom.
Designation GROVE part no.
Lubricant for the locking pins:
RHUS 2 AF, 1 kg can
03325215
Slide paste for the telescopic slide faces:
PAL1, 25 kg bucket
02314698
Designation GROVE part no.
Grease spray gun, complete:
Mobile, external compressed air connection
required
03325445
Spray extension, length 2 m, splittable 04159862
Manual grease spray gun for cartridge:
Via the tyre inflator connection on the truck
crane
03329027
25 m hose for manual grease spray gun: 03329072
Slide paste for the telescopic slide faces:
PAL1, 400 ml cartridge, refillable
03329071