In the Best Community Project category
As many will know our first service has been a long time in coming, and has required plenty of patience and stubbornness, but on Monday our turbine received its first service. The major task is the lifting of the generator and the runner to facilitate a proper inspection; with the help of our new lifting frame this proved to be quite straight forward. The inspection yielded no nasty surprises with the runner almost as good as new after nearly 3 years of operation.
As you’ll see in the picture of the inspection cover all the brown water coming out of Red Moss and off the hills has left its mark with a fine but thick peaty deposit. We plan to pressure wash the inside of turbine casing and the lower part of the pipe work to clear this.
Well done team!