Dropped into a turbine engine

Rare opportunity to demonstrate a sound that no turbine tech wants to hear... ever!

If you want to hear an experimental dubstep composition using this sound, check out http://soundcloud.com/skenik and listen to "Ghost Turbine"

If you like something subterranean, subterfugal, and possibly subversive... you'll be amazed.

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• mistake
• FOD
• screw
• up
• drop
• LM1500
• BCIT
• turbine
• tech
• technician
• overhaul
• skenik
• darkjurney
• sound
• compressor
• blade
• FSJ
• GT-19
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• dubstep
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[ProChoiceJesus]

I'm a sheetmetal & structures guy, tell me how do you extract a small part after it makes that cute, though terrifying music? Are there various methods as per the particular engine? I know demonstrating or talking about this may be sensitive since you're a jet engine shop & all, but I'm just curious how you get something out of there? Might be a fine subject for a video, too.

[AgentJayZ]

@ProChoiceJesus Yes, the mothods are:

1) turn the rotor on the stand, and hope the thing falls out

2) pick engine up with 2 cranes and turn it end over end and hope the thing falls out.

3) disassemble engine and find the thing as well as find a new job.

[tdurden664]

@Paradise7D the human race will be extinct in about 200-500 years. 50,000 years....LOL

[GeneralG1810]

LMAO yep been there done that only it was a socket, right when we were ready to put the cover back on

[ProChoiceJesus]

@AgentJayZ Or, you might call them "give-aways for some aviation maintenance school."

[ProChoiceJesus]

@AgentJayZ Wow, that's tough. The worst I've seen is $170,000 worth of too-deep countersinks (almost 100 too deep) put into a single brand-new plank of a brand-new wing for a P-3. I didn't do it, a highly-experienced co-worker did. That's about the price of a single almost-wing-length plank. Hard to believe were keeping those old things flying, but our cheap govt. won't get the Boeing 737 replacements for the P-3 rolling off the production line. Till then, were stuck with 40 year old P-3 Orions.

[55chh]

@AgentJayZ Or just put it all back together and hope nothing happens.

[MrPhantomFury]

Nice sound !!! :D

[christianthebom]

@TAKR888 its terrible because that means that you have the fun job of dissembling a jet engine to pull out a cm long screw

[delts99]

sounds like music

[AgentJayZ]

@helscreamer Modern turbine blades can be made of single crystals of high-nickel alloys. They are extremely heat resistant and tough. A light tap damages them as much as wiping your nose with Kleenex damages your face.

And this video is titled 'dropped into a turbine engine" for a reason... this is the compressor section, so the sound you hear is compressor blades being hit.

So you're not wrong, but a little off-center if aiming at this video.