what went wrong ?
12-19-2015, 04:50 PM
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12-19-2015, 06:38 PM
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Not to worry, Turkey's new stealth ships are working flawlessly 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkmh1hnxms
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12-19-2015, 07:03 PM
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I was a Gas Turbine Tech in the Navy - even pre-commished a cruiser at Bath Iron Works where this ship was built.
What shut this ship down was the most feared casualty to the main propulsion system that can happen: FUD (Fuk... Up Debris) in the main Reduction Gear Lube Oil System. The snipe on watch probably discovered it when he was cleaning the lube oil purifier soon after the ship got underway - a task I did so many times while I was in watch in the engine room. Not sure if the reduction gear locked up or if they just kept finding shavings and shut it down before the inevitable.
The main reduction gear is kept under lock and key because it would be so easy to incapacitate the ship by throwing something in there and in 99% of cases if something does go wrong with the reduction gear it's beyond the capacity of the ships personal to fix it. That's a job for the shipyard and the boys at Western Gear. http://youtu.be/YLQW2QJ_fzQ
What shut this ship down was the most feared casualty to the main propulsion system that can happen: FUD (Fuk... Up Debris) in the main Reduction Gear Lube Oil System. The snipe on watch probably discovered it when he was cleaning the lube oil purifier soon after the ship got underway - a task I did so many times while I was in watch in the engine room. Not sure if the reduction gear locked up or if they just kept finding shavings and shut it down before the inevitable.
The main reduction gear is kept under lock and key because it would be so easy to incapacitate the ship by throwing something in there and in 99% of cases if something does go wrong with the reduction gear it's beyond the capacity of the ships personal to fix it. That's a job for the shipyard and the boys at Western Gear. http://youtu.be/YLQW2QJ_fzQ
Looking back these ships are really quite impressive GE LM2500'S 20,000 -25,000 hp Gas Turbines depending on the ship that they are on. The main reduction gear is almost a work of art 9ft bull gear, double helical double reduction, 3600RPM input 200RPM output tolerances measured in the thousands of an inch. Pretty neat.
12-19-2015, 07:14 PM
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Something that contains potassium and vitamin A.....better yet, ask Borgie
12-19-2015, 08:16 PM
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Instead of hiring Professionals, they went on a forum OCO (OffshoreCombatOnly.com) and asked how they should build it.
Last edited by SB; 12-19-2015 at 08:21 PM.
