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Old 10-10-2010, 09:09 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Sir Nuke View Post
well I don't see it every day.....but I have seen it twice! I too work for a power company.....and over the last 25 years we have had two crater. ours are 20 cylinder Coopers, they are the size of a locomative, each of our 6, powers a 5.5 megawatt generator, thats what we have for back-up generators....both times a rod was thrown out of the engine, once through a side cover, and once through the block. it took a while, but we fixed them both.
This one was a 12 cylinder coupled to a 16MW generator.

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That is some serious equipment.
Yes it is!
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