In the BW. Most of our crew has moved to the Inn though. Having a hard time getting my side of the room made up. Paying $110 a night, and they won't stay a little late so I can have a clean bed. I guess they think everyone works 9-5 in the day time.

 

HI all Any 1st Genners here ?

 

Theres a few. I haven't seen them post lately. Lowwag64 and Freddy2Pipes come to mind off the top.

 

Thanks i will post in main thread

 

I had first genners longer than I have had this one.. So I guess I can be bi-lingual..

 

No one likes a fence sitter. Pick a team and stick with it.

roxxx, how far north of Calgary are you?

 

Didsbury Olds area HI by the way

 

Tate that funny cummin from a ex VP guy So what kinda of turbine you working on? Steam, aero or industrial? You should see my twin project coming together.

 

Mike, are you selling your PDR set?

 

Working on an 18Mw steamer that runs on old construction materials. Was built in '85 in Cali. Was submerged there for a while. Brought up here in 98'. Sat on barring gear for 7 years. In 05, it was rebuilt (poorly) and put the steam to it, many times. 82 startups in 2 years. Pulled it apart, half the bolts are really tight, other half are really loose. Could rock the top half of the diaphragms and packing glands as soon as we pulled the cover off. Started doing the alignments on the diaphragms, they were all over the map. Some one said the casing was warped, so I did all the measures with the mandrel in all the fits and packing glands, then re did them with the top case bolted down. Casing was twisted and bent and generally fubared. So they laid us off yesterday until they know whats going on. If they choose to fix it, machinists will be in on monday and re-machine all the fits, as well as put steps in the casing so we can use tombstone keys to set the verticals, and centerlines to set the horizontals. So I'll be off for about 10 days, then back I go for another week or so to put it all back together. Lesson from all this; chaos=cash!

As for the VP thing, I chose my team. The non-rotary pump team.

 

I remember those days to. You doing any hammer wrenching yet? You'll be one lean machine after month of that. You should work on aero's, way nicer work. Two days in and out, your running. What kinda of steamer? At least it sounds new. There are still older than that and some much more difficult to get apart. Man I'm old, I remember working on machines from the 50's and it wasn't that long ago either.

Ya the twins are for sell, $2500 complete. Thats a smoken deal as it will include the ATS manifold, relatily new turbos, less than 30k on them. I'm just about to start welding up a set of garretts just to see how the work.

 

I don't hammer wrench. There are two types of turbine specialists: the kind that swing a hammer, and ones that get put in the tight and confined spaces. And because I'm usually one of the only ones that fit in those spaces, I get quite familiar with micrometers, and I get to skip a lot of the grunt work.

This one is about par for age, although much smaller. The unit at Sheerness was from 88, Forestburg is around 78 or so, Sundance was 77. Forestburg was 160 MW, the others were 400-450 MW. All those we use induction heaters for the bolting. Hammer the stuff up to zero clearance, then use the heater and spin the nuts down for the stretch.

I'm waiting for getting onto some of the gas turbines, but the companies I've worked for usually stick to coal plants, not much for cogens.

 

Tate buddy, you looking to pull some wrenches? I just blew the tranny out my truck. I got mad trying to pass a slow moving green ford minivan trying to merge onto highway 2 south. I got up to 200kph, it started to jerk/shake violently a few times, then the forward motion kind stopped. Tons of engine rpm's. You can coast along time at 200kph but far enough to make it into Calgary. I got DTT warming up to start a fresh tranny for me. Its been one expensive month. Got the new garrett's sitting on work bench, but I just haven't landed on how I'm going to mount them up yet.

 

I'm actually heading back to Westlock tomorrow for about a week to a week and a half.

Where did you get your Garrett's from? I called Alamo, and I'm looking at about $2k each, and on the primary, 8 weeks out. Maybe I will just go with the BD's.

 

Tate, how much are the BD's??? Can ya get a better deal with buying 2 sets???