Posted on 11/09/2012 6:51:48 PM PST by zeestephen
If a new engine "commutator" has to be built by General Electric, the Walla Walla could be out of service for up to two years. An electrical surge caused huge chunks of steel and copper to melt, as well as holes to be blasted through the six foot diameter engine part.
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Ever since Clinton, the Left seems to simply ignore laws they don’t like, including language in the Constitution itself. Obama has put this practice on a fast train to oblivion.
Well, I guess some would say Roosevelt started it.
Ever since Clinton, the Left seems to simply ignore laws they don’t like, including language in the Constitution itself. Obama has put this practice on a fast train to oblivion.
Well, I guess some would say Roosevelt started it.
See my post #21.
The close up pictures are at the KING5news.com website.
I linked the address, but it got split, and part of the exact address is below the photo.
Really good pictures if you're an engineer or mechanic and understand what happened.
That does NOT include me.
I’d certainly be willing to take on the job of selling all that surplus junk copper to the metals recycler...
Agree with your comments on Wenatchee, but having been in this area for almost 60 years I’ve watched Wenatchee and Ellensburg become increasing infested with Puget Sound and California liberals. Compared to (even) smaller towns in eastern Wa they are almost beyond saving. The wind farms alone brought over a large number of liberals and vacation houses brought a bunch of the others (mostly Microsoft-Amazon-Starbucks types).
Two years to rebuild the engine? Must be a government job.
“Wenatchee and Ellensburg become increasing infested with Puget Sound and California liberals.”
There is no escaping the liberal take over of our nation.
But, compared to Edmonds, Seattle and Kirkland, Wenatchee is a conservative haven.
Two years to fix a motor? Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged world is coming to life by leaps and bounds.
With those brushes vaporized like that, they had a pretty good carbon-arc furnace going for a while. Any exposed skin within ten yards would have received nasty ultraviolet flash burns. Very good thing no one was in the vicinity!
When I was in high school, I built my own carbon arc furnace. My comment re UV skin burns comes via sad experience: I used an arc welder's filter to shield my eyes -- but it didn't protect the rest of my face. I got a quick lesson on why arc welders use full face shields instead of goggles like acetylene welders... :-(
At close range, that carbon arc flash would have been like being exposed to a nuclear bomb!
The parallel carbon arcs probably explain that long, continuous melt zone, as well.
Y’know, it is sorta nice to have a technical thread after all this weeks political crud! Thanks!!
Big Tex will be back before then.
Everything has to be fabricated from scratch. That commutator is not an item you can pick up at the local Marine Supply Store. Many surrounding parts must be replaced as well. This is kind of like replacing a damaged generator in one of our hydroelectric turbines. Big job. It will be entirely private companies doing the work.
I wouldn't have thought that. I also wouldn't have thought the motor in a ferry was as unique as a turbine in a hydroelectric plant.
LOL! I thought “nothing that a wire brush and some WD40 wouldn’t fix”. But I obviously am just joking. One would need a chisel like you said.
You’re welcome.
I began studying astronomy about 10 years ago for exactly that reason.
No personal emotions at risk, no political principles to defend.
Nothing to be gained or lost, except the almost useless knowledge of the universe around me.
But always worth the effort.
It was a private company, Black Ball, until 1951. The state figured they could do it better. My uncle started with the state as a purser in 1951 and retired as the terminal manager here in Anacortes after nearly 40 years.
Sorry for being snarky. A good friend died, the elections went sideways, and some meth heads tried to steal my dog. Really a bad week.
"What is a star?" say the last men, and they blink. - FN
Yes, indeed!
We bought a home on adjoining land before we retired from MA back to my part of the old family farm in Texas.
While we were still in MA, I called our electric co-op here and had a cut-off switch installed on the pole security light -- just for astronomy!
Probably a union shop - the guy who was supposed to check had already reached his "checking" quota for the day and the one who applied power isn't allowed to intrude on the checker's job...
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