Defect found in Boeing GE engine not isolated

Aiken Standard ^ | 15 Sept 2012 | Brendan Kearney

[CodeToad]

Dollar to donuts an engineer somewhere sounded the alarm months ago only to be told to shut up by “management”.

[aposiopetic]

Out of curiosity, were the GE engines manufactured in a union shop in Ohio, before being sent to the Boeing facility in right-to-work South Caroina?

[Ozymandias Ghost]

Am I correct in assuming that the SC facility is non-union??? If that is correct, it raises the possibility of sabotage since only the SC plant seems to have a problem.

[elpadre]

Coming out of the metals industry, I learned that whenever the Steelworkers were going out on strike they found clever ways to sabotage equipment. If we hadn't found one such early on, there would have been injuries or possibly deaths.

The unions are very unhappy about the South Carolina plant. Just saying....

[afraidfortherepublic]

Dollar to donuts an engineer somewhere sounded the alarm months ago only to be told to shut up by “management”.

Just like the O rings on the Challenger. May they R.I.P.

[smokingfrog]

Good question.

I see it was tested in Ohio.

http://www.geaviation.com/engines/commercial/genx/

[Spunky]

Everything that is GE is a piece of crap. Like my stove, and refrigerator etc;

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks smokingfrog.

G’night all.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Some may find this G.E. site interesting

The GEnx Theatre

I remembered from 50 years ago that GE manufactured engines in a suburb of Cincinnati.. I went looking to see it it had all been outsourced to Red China. Nope. But I could not verify where the failed parts were made.

Looks like quite a bit of interesting stuff at that site.

[Montanabound]

My GE dishwasher is also a piece of crap. Never again.

[103198]

The O ring problem was induced by a political decision. The initial design of the boosters did not have O rings. They were to be manufactured in South Florida and barged up the Inter-coastal Waterway to the Cape. When production was moved to Utah, it changed the design since entire booster couldn't be shipped on a rail car. The rail lines including overpass size provided the new design criteria for the boosters. With no O rings and a slightly larger diameter, the shuttles would have been safer and have a larger throw weight capability.

[Montanabound]

My GE dishwasher is also a piece of crap. Never again.

[RitchieAprile]

Evendale OH if they are GE engines, used to help them with their Calma systems back in the day. We would not outsource
these to China of whatever color.

[upchuck]

Am I correct in assuming that the SC facility is non-union???

Yes you are. And you'd better believe there was one hell of a stink at the time. Look at these Google links.

[upchuck]

It must suck to be GE.

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[USNBandit]

This is going to be a huge problem when Dreamliner production is behind schedule. I was down at Paine field on Wednesday and there is a big long taxiway filled with airplanes that don’t have engines.

[Clay Moore]

I have heard it said that the only thing GE makes that doesn’t suck is a vacuum cleaner.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I could have told them that O rings wouldn’t hold. I had faucets in my house in Houston that were fitted with O rings that leaked and fell apart because of the hard water. As I remember, the Challenger launch was postponed a couple of times because of the unseasonably cold weather. There was at least one engineer who came forward and related that he’d warned them, but...we all know the rest.

[afraidfortherepublic]

That was Thiokol that made the boosters, wasn’t it?