Nuke sub needing repair? Sure park it here..we can fix it

[Zonker]

Royal Navy orders investigation into nuclear submarine ‘repaired with glue’

Claims made that broken bolts on HMS Vanguard’s reactor chamber were stuck on instead of replaced

www.theguardian.com

"The Royal Navy has ordered an urgent investigation amid claims that workers on a Trident nuclear armed submarine fixed broken bolts in the vessel’s reactor chamber using superglue.

The faulty repairs on the cooling pipes aboard HMS Vanguard were found after one of the bolts fell off during an inspection, the Sun reported.

The bolt heads originally came off due to over-tightening. But, rather than replacing the damaged shafts, staff at the defence contractor Babcock implemented a quick fix and glued them back on.

Engineers at the contractor reported it as a procedural glitch after the problem was found, but did not mention the botched nature of the repair."

Well fuck me. Kids - do not do this when repairing nuclear systems.

 

[Ishmael]

Royal Navy orders investigation into nuclear submarine ‘repaired with glue’

Claims made that broken bolts on HMS Vanguard’s reactor chamber were stuck on instead of replaced

www.theguardian.com

"The Royal Navy has ordered an urgent investigation amid claims that workers on a Trident nuclear armed submarine fixed broken bolts in the vessel’s reactor chamber using superglue.

The faulty repairs on the cooling pipes aboard HMS Vanguard were found after one of the bolts fell off during an inspection, the Sun reported.

The bolt heads originally came off due to over-tightening. But, rather than replacing the damaged shafts, staff at the defence contractor Babcock implemented a quick fix and glued them back on.

Engineers at the contractor reported it as a procedural glitch after the problem was found, but did not mention the botched nature of the repair."

Well fuck me. Kids - do not do this when repairing nuclear systems.

Yeah, should have used JB Weld.

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

They didn't have the Whitworth spares official repair kit?

 

[SloopJonB]

I guess they never had any success with Easy-Outs either.

 

[Ed Lada]

Well fuck me. Kids - do not do this when repairing nuclear systems.

When I was building commuter train cars at the local GE plant, there were times when it was impossible to get a screw into a wire race cover. The inspector would come through and write it up. So somebody got the bright idea to cut the threaded portion off a screw and glue the screw head over the hole. Worked a treat it did.

My favorite moment there was when one of my co-workers was complaining that they had cut the time on a particular job. We worked on a group piecework plan. We would take little shortcuts to get the job done quicker and make more money. My angry co-worker said "They can't cut the time on this job, I'm only putting in one screw now!"

At least the trains weren't nuke powered, just electricity from the catenary wire overhead. I sincerely apologize to any commuter that was stuck on the tracks in a malfunctioning GE electric commuter car in the New York, New Haven, Philadelphia area back in the 1970s. Especially on a sweltering hot summer day in a dead car and the bulletproof Lexan windows were impossible to open or break.

 

[4ktsb]

Royal Navy orders investigation into nuclear submarine ‘repaired with glue’

Claims made that broken bolts on HMS Vanguard’s reactor chamber were stuck on instead of replaced

www.theguardian.com

"The Royal Navy has ordered an urgent investigation amid claims that workers on a Trident nuclear armed submarine fixed broken bolts in the vessel’s reactor chamber using superglue.

The faulty repairs on the cooling pipes aboard HMS Vanguard were found after one of the bolts fell off during an inspection, the Sun reported.

The bolt heads originally came off due to over-tightening. But, rather than replacing the damaged shafts, staff at the defence contractor Babcock implemented a quick fix and glued them back on.

Engineers at the contractor reported it as a procedural glitch after the problem was found, but did not mention the botched nature of the repair."

Well fuck me. Kids - do not do this when repairing nuclear systems.

Hell of a lot easier than e z outing those bolts.

 

[Steam Flyer]

Hell of a lot easier than e z outing those bolts.

On a nuke, it's a piece of cake. They just melt.

 

[Bristol-Cruiser]

Engineers at the contractor reported it as a procedural glitch

Procedural glitches are the worst kind of glitches.

 

[ROADKILL666]

My brother got a killer set of tools

 

[Ventucky Red]

 

[Laker]

Yeah, should have used JB Weld.

Not the thing to do. Don't ask me how I know. The radiation really gets to the organic.

 

[jdazey]

I'm sorry Laker. I know you said not to do this.

How do you know?

 

[Laker]

As a student, I worked as a technician in the Physics Department of my university. The prof was building an Ion Dump for a large cyclotron. The team thought it would be a good idea to make a component out of reinforced epoxy. The Ion Dump got installed, commissioned and one could see the component slowly fly apart. The bits were radioactive, of course. Took a bit to clean up. It would be the only non conductive piece in the whole assembly and the thought was it was far enough away from the beam. Wrong.

 

[Ease the sheet.]

From the nation of Lucas...

 

[SCARECROW]

Don't worry too much. Its probably one of the Subs they're selling to Australia.

 

[SCARECROW]

There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make Nuclear Cargo ships a very real future.

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

NS Savannah. Went on her as a kid on her west coast tour. Eiesenhower's "Atoms For Peace" Program.

https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/docs/national-defense-reserve-fleet/ns-savannah-program/6146/stsnsspublicmeeting20080709.pdf

https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasme/who%20we%20are/engineering%20history/landmarks/87-ns-savannah-1962.pdf

 

[billy backstay]

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When you have repaired something and have a few, or even a handfull of factory installed fasteners and other parts left over, it only proves that you are smarter than the engineers, since you don't need all of those parts, right?

 

[Steam Flyer]

There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make Nuclear Cargo ships a very real future.

Been there, done that, too expensive to pay dividends.

 

[BoksNoRox]

If I recall correctly, USNS Nautilus used some commerical automobile radiator repair solution to stop the reactor cooling system from leaking before the under the north pole voyage.