Project Name:  New Madrid             Customer: Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.

Location: New Madrid, Missouri         Equipment: 650 MW H2 cooled BBC Generators   

Week 4/18 - 4/24/2005    Week 4/25 - 5/1/2005    Week 5/2 - 5/8/2005    Week 5/9 - 5/15/2005

May 21, 2005

The generator is done. I'm hitting the road.

Thanks for your interest in my site and this outage.

May 21, 2005

Installing the mouse trap on the HP cross over connection

May 20, 2005

Going back together after figuring out where the leak was. Darrel is lowering upper triple seal housing into the generator.

May 20, 2005

Cross over pipes installed on HP and being torqued down

May 19, 2005

DE H2 seal housing removed for leak investigation

May 19, 2005

Heating and tightening HP casing flange bolts

May 18, 2005

Continuing tightening coupling coupling bolts on the LP2-Gen coupling

Still looking for leaks on the generator. Turbine is still repairing HP casing flange

May 17, 2005

Weld repair on HP outer casing flange in progress

May 17, 2005

Rear end of generator slowly taking shape

May 16, 2005

Well here's at least one picture from the other night.

Aligning the outboard slip ring brush bracket.