An 11-year-old container vessel suffered a major casualty on one of its Yanmar 6EY26L auxiliary engines resulting in pieces of the connecting rod breaking through the crankcase wall causing extensive damage. Knowing how operationally disruptive and exceedingly expensive a block replacement would be, the owner contacted Goltens Dubai to inspect the damage and determine if the block could be salvaged.
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WARTSILA 18V32LN ENGINE BLOCK REPAIR Goltens performed laser scanning on the damaged areas to facilitate the casting of precise inserts for the block. Goltens cropped the damaged interior and exterior sections of the engine to ensure clean mating surfaces and …
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THE INSPECTION AND THE PROPOSAL During the inspection, Goltens learned that the engine had suffered the same casualty on the same cylinders 30 years earlier. The block had significant damage to the crankcase near the doors, liner landings and the …
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Goltens was called to answer these questions, when this nightmare turned reality aboard a 34-year-old rail vehicles carrier. Goltens specialists surveyed the engine and discovered, in addition to the large hole in the engine block, damage to the lower liner-landing …
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PROJECT FACTS MV VTC OCEAN Engine Type: Yanmar 6N18-UN Output: 450 KW Vessel Type: Bulk Carrier YANMAR DIESEL REPAIR WORK SCOPE Complete cleaning and inspection of engine block Complete cleaning and inspection of crankshaft at workshop Repaired the badly damaged …
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PROJECT FACTS METAL STITCHING Engine Model: MaK 12M282 Vessel Type: FPSO Engine Output: 2,400KW RPM: 1,000 RPM METAL STITCHING REPAIR Full inspection of the damaged block Removal of damaged portions of the block – leaving a clean surface to stitch …
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Goltens’ In-Situ specialists started by joining the larger parts together prior to metal stitching along the full length of the cracks. The finished stitching covered a length of 1.45 meters (57”). The stitching was then coated with a layer of …
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Goltens milled out the damaged area and completed post machining dye penetrant checks to ensure that 100% of the damage had been removed. Goltens fashioned a template of the damaged area and fabricated an insert that was machined to fit …
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