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generator cooling water heads, GE 14MW generator

10/11/2007 12:17 PM

Good Morning all,

Can anyone help me locate cooling water headers for a GE14 MW generator. My customer has had this stator in storage for 3 years. Cooling water tubes are clean but the intake heads (cast iron) are rusted through. Outlet nozzles are also very corroded. I am working on getting a serial number off the generator.

Pictures are availible if they would help.

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Re: generator cooling water heads, GE 14MW generator

10/12/2007 8:43 AM

Suggest you call GE and see if they have the mold to cast more of these, if they do not have any spares in stock. Another route is to make one yourself either machined from solid steel or make a sand mold, cast one and machine it down. Make sure you have thick enough metal for the stress involved and get the final product x-rayed or sonically tested for voids/cracks.

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Re: generator cooling water heads, GE 14MW generator

10/12/2007 11:05 AM

Thank you very much for your response. I was thinking last night that machining from solid steel might be the quickest method. Expensive, but timely. I don't know if GE would have the molds. It's at least 12-15 years old.

Tough to imagine that these will be a stock, shelf item anywhere.

Roy

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