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Defect found in Boeing GE engine not isolated
Aiken Standard ^
| 15 Sept 2012
| Brendan Kearney
Posted on 09/15/2012 7:55:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
Dollar to donuts an engineer somewhere sounded the alarm months ago only to be told to shut up by “management”.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:00:28 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Be Prepared...They Are.)
To: smokingfrog
Out of curiosity, were the GE engines manufactured in a union shop in Ohio, before being sent to the Boeing facility in right-to-work South Caroina?
To: smokingfrog
Am I correct in assuming that the SC facility is non-union??? If that is correct, it raises the possibility of sabotage since only the SC plant seems to have a problem.
To: smokingfrog
Coming out of the metals industry, I learned that whenever the Steelworkers were going out on strike they found clever ways to sabotage equipment. If we hadn't found one such early on, there would have been injuries or possibly deaths.
The unions are very unhappy about the South Carolina plant. Just saying....
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:05:36 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: CodeToad
Dollar to donuts an engineer somewhere sounded the alarm months ago only to be told to shut up by management. Just like the O rings on the Challenger. May they R.I.P.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:09:35 PM PDT
by
afraidfortherepublic
(Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:09:50 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Everything that is GE is a piece of crap. Like my stove, and refrigerator etc;
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:13:15 PM PDT
by
Spunky
(Those)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks smokingfrog.
G’night all.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:18:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: smokingfrog
Some may find this G.E. site interesting
The GEnx Theatre
I remembered from 50 years ago that GE manufactured engines in a suburb of Cincinnati.. I went looking to see it it had all been outsourced to Red China. Nope. But I could not verify where the failed parts were made.
Looks like quite a bit of interesting stuff at that site.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:26:37 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Spunky
My GE dishwasher is also a piece of crap. Never again.
To: afraidfortherepublic
The O ring problem was induced by a political decision. The initial design of the boosters did not have O rings. They were to be manufactured in South Florida and barged up the Inter-coastal Waterway to the Cape. When production was moved to Utah, it changed the design since entire booster couldn't be shipped on a rail car. The rail lines including overpass size provided the new design criteria for the boosters. With no O rings and a slightly larger diameter, the shuttles would have been safer and have a larger throw weight capability.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:33:03 PM PDT
by
103198
To: Spunky
My GE dishwasher is also a piece of crap. Never again.
To: WilliamofCarmichael
Evendale OH if they are GE engines, used to help them with their Calma systems back in the day. We would not outsource
these to China of whatever color.
To: Ozymandias Ghost
Am I correct in assuming that the SC facility is non-union???Yes you are. And you'd better believe there was one hell of a stink at the time. Look at these Google links.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:37:13 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(If nobama is reelected and gets to choose more SCOTUS judges, this country is finished.)
To: smokingfrog; l8pilot; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; ...
It must suck to be GE.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:39:54 PM PDT
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upchuck
(If nobama is reelected and gets to choose more SCOTUS judges, this country is finished.)
To: RitchieAprile
This is going to be a huge problem when Dreamliner production is behind schedule. I was down at Paine field on Wednesday and there is a big long taxiway filled with airplanes that don’t have engines.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:41:44 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: upchuck
I have heard it said that the only thing GE makes that doesn’t suck is a vacuum cleaner.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:43:00 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: 103198
I could have told them that O rings wouldn’t hold. I had faucets in my house in Houston that were fitted with O rings that leaked and fell apart because of the hard water. As I remember, the Challenger launch was postponed a couple of times because of the unseasonably cold weather. There was at least one engineer who came forward and related that he’d warned them, but...we all know the rest.
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:43:23 PM PDT
by
afraidfortherepublic
(Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
To: 103198
That was Thiokol that made the boosters, wasn’t it?
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posted on
09/15/2012 8:46:18 PM PDT
by
afraidfortherepublic
(Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
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