And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Stumpsmasher said, "The steam turbine is a GE D11. 320 megawatt unit at the combined cycle power plant I operate. We had it apart for an overhaul this spring.
👍🏻👍🏻 Sometimes it’s easy to forget among the snide comments that many of us make from time to time just how much experience, expertise, and knowledge there is among CW’s crowd.
Though I would know nothing about how it works I would love to see that up close. Any kind of machine is fascinating to me especially something like that.
And don't they know it! Kidding - they taught me a lot and even let me help heat, then slug bolts loose on a 100 MW 3600 rpm unit from the late 1950's. Great real world experience for a young injunear (they would spit when they say that word!.) Later got to work assembling some new 1440 MWe 1800 rpm turbines from GE (IYKYN) We didn't slug them - had a machine to do the stretch and spin thing and I got to watch. Later was there when we first synched the machine to the grid during hot testing.
Nice. I used to work for Alstom's Power and Grid in Switzerland before the GE take over back in 2015. We built the GT24 and GT26. Good times!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Thank you for your contributions to civilization. 👍🏻
DeleteAnd that my good friends is how you maintain a stable electric grid.
ReplyDeleteWish this site had an "upvote" button.
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DeleteSometimes it’s easy to forget among the snide comments that many of us make from time to time just how much experience, expertise, and knowledge there is among CW’s crowd.
Though I would know nothing about how it works I would love to see that up close. Any kind of machine is fascinating to me especially something like that.
ReplyDeleteSteamed the last steam powered Adams class destroyers. Fun times!
ReplyDeleteWould love to work on something like this instead of these darn Legos.
ReplyDeleteTolerances on these units are a lot tighter spec than Legos.
DeleteMillwrights, God's chosen few.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't they know it! Kidding - they taught me a lot and even let me help heat, then slug bolts loose on a 100 MW 3600 rpm unit from the late 1950's. Great real world experience for a young injunear (they would spit when they say that word!.) Later got to work assembling some new 1440 MWe 1800 rpm turbines from GE (IYKYN) We didn't slug them - had a machine to do the stretch and spin thing and I got to watch. Later was there when we first synched the machine to the grid during hot testing.
DeleteThat looks like the transmission from a Datsun B210 I had back in the day. The Japanese engineering teams could pack a lot into a small car. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteSpent 25 years illustrating for field manuals, and engineering staff…not this company but similar at the other end of state.
ReplyDeleteWe built & serviced those gas turbines at the former GE Service Apparatus Shop in Anaheim, CA back in the 70's.
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