Showerthought: That week we had to replace the entire steam drum baffle on the old Babcock & Wilcox unit at the Detroit plant with the wrong size plate stock.

We had to cut and weld every single new baffle plate by hand over three 12-hour shifts because the mill sent 3/8 inch instead of 1/2 inch, so what's the most creative field fix you've ever had to pull off for a wrong part?

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vera19522d ago

Honestly, that sounds like the supplier's fault, not a creative fix. I'd be sending that plate stock back and billing them for the delay. Making your crew work triple shifts to fix their mistake isn't clever, it's just unfair.

dylan_brown3022d ago

Yeah, but what's the other choice when you're in a bind like stone.river said?

stone.river22d ago

Sending it back sounds good until the whole unit's down for a week.

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