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New from the NPE Product Improvement Center: Westinghouse Operating Handle for WLI/MVS/MVS2 Switches

Manual Operating Handle for WLI/MVS/MVS2 Switches

NPE P/N 100003758

OEM: 7274A49H01*


This handle features an insulated grip to ensure safety. This product is generally kept in stock in limited quantities and can be ordered online or through your normal purchasing channels.

 

* Part number used to reference original OEM's for identification purposes only. They are not manufactured, endorsed or warrantied by OEM.

New from the NPE Product Improvement Center: VCP-W Bracket (Breaker Side)

VCP-W Secondary Disconnect Block Bracket (breaker side)

SKU: AM 100003728

 

 

Replacement breaker side secondary bracket with guide pin holes for 50VCP-W circuit breakers. This part is normally offered in an accessory kit by the manufacturer but we make and offer it as a single item so there isn't an OEM number to reference.

SKU: AM 100003728

$300.00/each

Can also be offered with the secondary block SKU: AM 100003318, pins SKU: AM 100003338 and wiring harness. Just email us for details!

 

                                                  

 

News from the NPE Product Improvement Center: Westinghouse DHP Fifth Wheel

DHP Fifth Wheel/Turning Dolly

 OEM: 677C889G01*

 

Our latest additon to the NPE Aftermarket Parts/Tool List is the Fifth Wheel/Turning Dolly accessory for withdrawing, installing and moving all breakers except 150DHP750C and 150DHP1000 breakers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This part and all of NPE's New Aftermarket Parts are available online at https://www.npeinc.com/parts or through your normal purchasing channels. We have "The right part, at the right price, right now!"

SKU: 100003738 

OEM: 677C889G01*

*Part number used to reference original OEM's for identification purposes only. They are not manufactured, endorsed or warrantied by OEM.

Parts no longer made and no longer available...what do you do?

A customer of ours is in charge of the electrical distribution of a manufacturing facility and had some switchgear running in his building and his production line. These metal-clad switchgear and circuit breakers have been well maintained and functioned properly but over the years the manufacturer obsoleted one particular product line and stopped supporting its parts as well. He's been able to source parts through the secondary or used equipment market through qualified dealers like National Power Equipment, Inc. but one specific product was nearly impossible to locate. In this case, it was a plastic part the is very fragile and breaks if you even look at it wrong. This customer wanted to find replacements for 60 of them but couldn't seem to find that quantity in the used equipment market. He also felt that it didn't make much sense to replace an inherently inferior part with the same inferior part that is just going to fail in the same way.

The solution...National Power Equipment's Aftermarket Parts Department. In less than 2 weeks, NPE had designed the tooling to make a replacement part using modern materials that are stronger and more resilient than what he had been struggling with for years. A true one-and-done solution.

 

This part was an electrical connector that brought control power into his Federal Pacific H2 and H3 type circuit breakers. This part was originally manufactured with material that tends to crack and break causing an increased risk of breaker failure, downtime along with the risk of an injury to the operators. Check out this part and other's in NPE's Aftermarket Parts Store. The parts listed on our website all suffer from inherent defects the NPE has worked hard to make stronger, faster, better and they don't cost six million bucks!

The NPE Product Improvement Center and Aftermarket Parts

Over the years, NPE has identified many parts that have design defects, that are no longer made, and/or are hard to find. It makes little sense to replace a defective, damaged part with another part with the same inherent faults, and you certainly do not want to wait weeks to get it. That is what the NPE Product Improvement Center (PIC) and its Aftermarket Parts (Aft's) list is focused on...having what you need, when you need it and often at times, at a better price point. 

Sometimes, it's about an improvement such as using moden, fiber-reinforced plastics as used for our DB Control Relays or simply a design change to improve strength as with our VB/VB1 Secondary's and DS Secondary's or just by having it in stock when you need it and at a better price than the OEM, that's if it's even still available. Currently, we have over 300 items on our Aft list. All of them are in stock, when you need them. They are available to order 24/7 online or through your normal purchasing channels.

 

                                 

 

 

If you don't see what you need, let us know! We are always looking for new ideas and ways to add to our ever-growing Aft list!

Just one more way at NPE we live up to our pledge...The right part, at the right price, right now!