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Posted by Bill West on Tue Oct 10 03:16:55 2006, in response to What's the problem with turbine trains?, posted by New Brunswick Station on Tue Oct 10 00:37:20 2006. I heard a story from Pratt & Whitney Canada when they were doing the CN turbos for United Aircraft. They had a bit a bit of culture shock between the CN mechanics who still had an active steam engine in the region and the Pratt aircraft engineers. It amounted to a generation gap between the equipment technology and the technology the maintenance staff grew up with. It seems UA’s design incredibly required jacking the whole train set up to remove a precision truck drive shaft, although they did at least provide a quick way to do this. CN’s mechanics didn’t need any help to remove shafts however, it’s the same as it was in steam days. One day a Pratt engineer came upon them “successfully” getting one of these shafts out with a sledge hammer. Can you imagine a sledge hammer on anything “aircraft”? A large piece of change went on the scrap heap that day.Bill |
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