Chapter 4
Maintenance
Tool Requirements When maintenance is performed on the vacuum contactor, one or all of the fol-
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Recommended Torque Values Part of the contactor may have to be disassembled for maintenance or replace-
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1502-UM051E-EN-P – June 2013