Well...takes the time pressure off the other jobs during the shutdown. That made me sick watching that drop and knowing the lead times and costs of turbine parts. Wowsers...that definitely hurts in a lot of different ways!
That should serve as an explanation why you never ever stand under a suspended load. Like the guy to the left did shortly before it came crashing down. At least it looked like he was under it.
Sounds before the accident ? Something happening ..............🤔 What a luck noting falling down when the rotor is high up.....Does anyone know what the investigations showed after - what really gone wrong....so we don't have to speculate.......??
Me and my big mouth. When I worked at Long Beach naval shipyard 1982 or 3 ? I watched Herman the German the floating crane pick up Howard hughes's the spruce with my family. They said we took two floating cranes from Germany at the end of WW2. We got one in england got one England tried to float there's across the English channel and sank I don't know ? I remember at Christmas the thing had a big star on top of the boom. I was told the Navy would allow it to pick up 400 tons. The story was that the Germans used the floating cranes to pick up u-boats out of the water. Last I knew that crane was at the Panama canal. That was one hell of a big crane for being so old .
I helped blue and scrape the steam turbine casings on the uss Missouri. We had the uppercase hanging over head . There's something to be said about being young and Dumb 🎉 nevertheless would love to do it again . I remember pulling a wheel off that battle wagon 20 ft in the air swinging 20 lb sledgehammer overhead removing the nuts off the propeller . I believe we work for 3 months around the clock to remove a stern tube bearing. When it finally broke free we had 250 tons of electric hydraulic jacks on the upper half. It shows the whole battleship on the blocks , in the concrete dry doc Long Beach I'm getting so damn old I guess it was 1983. I work swing shift nobody around it was like my play ground . There's something to be said about standing on top of the 014 and looking at Long Beach harbor in the night no one a round. The workman ship that was put into that ship 80 years ago Just Amazing !!! P.S. don't tell me diesel fuel brought down the twin towers Bullshit. Unless you've sat under 30 tons of steel hanging on wire you have no idea
A heavy central shaft which builds no momentum, no centrifugal force, all of it's weight centrally located with narrow fan blades mounted upon it on which tremendous amounts of steam are blown through in order to make this heavy central shaft spin. There is hardly any surface area for the steam to apply force to which is set at an angle shedding the steam off at an angle. It is like trying to push a car forward by pushing on the rear door at an angle, an indirect application of force. The old heavy flywheel principle was much better using centrifugal force and momentum to keep the flywheel turning using very little effort. A one inch hydraulic line can lift 5 tons of weight using directly applied hydraulic forces under pressure, while these turbines use a vapor, steam is a vapor to push fan blades set at an angel to spin a 15 ton central shaft using 10 million tons of coal. That's how much steam is required to make these things work. They then rust up and seize up and have to be machined and rebuilt at 500,000. It is the most expensive, terrible idea, unless you are trying to sell and burn coal. It is anti physics, high school physics class has more logic and reason than these things. Regular hydraulics, a liquid is a 1,000 times more efficient than a vapor in applying direct forces. Turning a heavy shaft with angled blades using a vapor is insane and incredibly wasteful. We are replacing them with old style heavy flywheel machines connected to a piston, which will use only a very small amount of steam driving a piston connected to a large heavy flywheel. Momentum will keep it spinning. We are burning nearly 5 billion tons of coal globally. Do you know how much diesel fuel is needed to haul 5 billion tons of coal? About 80 billion gallons. LLXIIX77
One of the blades of the turbine was bent in the mishap. A worker was able to take a ballpen hammer and tap out the metal. The turbine was up and running after only a minute and twenty-two seconds after occurrence.
I watched another version of this video which was narrated. The initial damage estimate (rough) was around 5-10 million dollars (US). I believe they said the blades were titanium. Lloyds of London, anyone?
Ha! Cast iron in critical components.. Chinese fraud components are in everything important now. As time goes on they'll make their presence known more and more as everything important gets destroyed. Saw a Cirque De Soleil tragedy where the same thing as in video happened because of fraud in some critical rigging gear. Several performers were horribly injured, a few did not survive. Some markets are too dangerous to even have contact with.
