Astute Submarine: Tremendous Effort To Recover Bearings
A tremendous effort by dedicated and committed individuals from all areas of the submarine community “has successfully completed the complex task of recovering the turbo generator (TG) bearings damaged during commissioning on the first-class submarine Astute....
Case Study – In-Situ Milling To Repair Underground Train Coupling Slide Box
London Underground (TFL) contacted Nicol & Andrew due to suffering severe wear to a large number of their train coupling slide boxes. They were faced with having to cut them out and weld in new ones at great cost and downtime. After carrying out a detailed...
On Site Damaged Shaft Repair – Case Study
How Nicol and Andrew restored a catastrophically Damaged Shaft within a week The shaft above had suffered such catastrophic damage that it was thought impossible to repair. However, the machining team at Nicol & Andrew thought differently. After an inspection by...
Case Study – Tail Shaft Machining
Background To The Tailshaft Repair The Moscow had a failure on its 505mm Ø (400mm long) tailshaft pedestal journal. Nicol & Andrew were called in to re-machine the damaged journal in-situ, using specialised orbital equipment. Initial Findings The white metal...
A Jenbacher Case Study – Repair of Bearing Caps Liner Land & Oil Gallery
Background to The Repair Our customer had a failure of a Jenbacher engine block where a con rod had rattled around the engine damaging a bearing cap, an oil gallery and a lower liner land. Nicol & Andrew were called in to carry out a dimensional survey to...
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