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Pre-Outage Borescope Inspection: How to ...
adminSeptember 25, 2026
When finance asks why you need to spend money before an outage even starts, the answer is simple: a pre-outage borescope...
OEM vs. Independent Borescope Inspection...
adminSeptember 11, 2026
Every plant manager staring down an upcoming outage eventually asks the same question: does the OEM’s name on the ...
GE 7EA Compressor Borescope Inspection: ...
adminAugust 28, 2026
A crack at the blade root, a shifted shim two rows downstream, a pit that looks cosmetic but isn’t: a GE 7EA compr...
Hot Gas Path Damage Patterns: What Combu...
adminAugust 14, 2026
A pulled liner or a stack of borescope images looks like scrap metal to an untrained eye. To an engineer who knows what ...
Surface Crack Detection with Visible Dye...
adminMarch 13, 2026
Surface Crack Detection with Visible Dye Penetrant Testing — Finding Defects Before They Force a Shutdown Cracks in ho...
Importance of Borescope Inspections Duri...
adminMarch 6, 2026
Every hour a turbine sits offline costs money. Whether you are managing a scheduled outage window or responding to a for...
Borescope Strategies for Combined-Cycle ...
adminFebruary 28, 2026
The power generation industry is pushing equipment to its limits. Combined cycle power plants in the United States are n...
Frame 7FA Borescope Inspections — Prot...
adminFebruary 19, 2026
The Frame 7FA gas turbine is a cornerstone in America’s power infrastructure. GE designed these units as the core ...