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Originally Posted by CAnderson
What I find fascinating is that Constellation has never had thrust bearing failures that have the other ships have had, and as I recall, Alstom swears the same bearings that were refitted to Constellation before it went into active service are the same ones being used in the other 3 ships. Go figure. It's no surprise that Celebrity/RCCL went elsewhere for their new builds... heck, they're still trying to recover all of their losses from Alstom and Rolls.
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Re: the bearings. Many bearing manufacturers in the world now. Used to be that if you needed a thrust bearing, you had maybe two choices. Now you might have 40 choices of manufacturers. Guess what? Some of them are overseas and use steel that is not of a a 52100 class and therefore those are bound to have failures. Of course these 3rd world countries have cheaper prices. Might have something to do with the thrust bearing failure. Most US companies are ISO approved and most of the 3rd world countries can't spell ISO. |