Almost ready

The outer casing of the steamturbine is at it's place.
Now according to a schedule the nuts are thightened; this is done by so-called studbolt heating; in this way the length of the bolt is increased by means of heating an element that is placed inside the studbolt.
The nut is then thightened and when the heating stops and the bolt is cooling off to ambient temperature it is just thight enough.
(I used this method but then by means of hydraulics also for a main engine at a ship, to secure the cilindercover).

See also this one where you can see the rotor.

Planning is to let it run for balancing on tuesday.

Note: yesterday night we found a dead seal outside the pumping station. We were thermoshocking a unit by means of heating up the cooling water to kill the mussels in the system so we could not reach it but it was dead for quite a while already....so we had to leave it where it was...


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