Plain Lab · logbook
Pump Service Logbook
An eight-page day book, sixty machine-log pages, and twenty pages of notes for a pump's service history.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 24
Eight day-book pages open the log, ruled into four columns: Date, Part, Qty, Ref. A part drawn from the store and never written down leaves no way to tie it to the pump it went into six months later.
Sixty machine-log pages follow. Each one records hours run, pressure, temperature, vibration and the action taken, so a pump that starts running rough three weeks before it fails leaves a trail, provided somebody kept filling the columns in.
Twenty college-ruled notes pages sit at the back, for the fault that took longer to describe than a column allows. It does not print your lubrication interval or your vibration limit. Those come from the pump manufacturer or the maintenance plan you work to, and nobody can walk a printed book back to the press to fix a wrong figure. The columns just give you somewhere to write the number down.
What is inside
- Day book
- 8pp
- Four columns fixed, so a part drawn from the store is always traced back to the job.
- Machine log
- 60pp
- Ruled for hours run, pressure, temperature, vibration and the action taken, so two visits read the same way months apart.
- Notes
- 20pp
- College-ruled, for the fault that took longer to describe than the columns allow.
- Reference
- 12pp
- Reference pages at the back: conversions worked from definitions, emergency numbers checked against two sources before they were set in ink.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Chemical Store and Disposal LogWorks alongsideshares field-work, record-keeping
- Compressor Service LogbookWorks alongsideshares field-work, millwright, record-keeping
- Generator Set LogbookWorks alongsideshares field-work, record-keeping
- Hydraulic Service LogbookWorks alongsideshares field-work, millwright, record-keeping
Questions
What are the day-book columns?
Date, Part, Qty, Ref.
What does the machine-log page record?
Hours run, pressure, temperature, vibration and the action taken.
How big is it?
A5, 100 pages, and 5.72 mm across the spine when closed.
Is it dated?
No. Start it the day the pump goes into service.
Does it tell me my lubrication interval or vibration limit?
No, and that is deliberate. Those come from the pump manufacturer or the maintenance plan you follow, and they differ by machine. Once a figure is set on the page it stays wrong if the manufacturer revises it, so the columns just give you somewhere to write the number down.
What ruling are the notes pages?
College ruling, twenty-four lines to the page, 9/32 inch pitch.
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