Thats some neat info

"Argyle" argyle@nospam wrote in message
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Had a visit last week at a customer site to look at upgrading and
automating
their plate mill. I was quite surprised to find the top 2 and bottom 2
main
drive motors labled port and starboard. I had to ask. They told me they
were
motors from a salvaged WWII submarine.

Another customer has twin motors the the last stand of their cold mill.
The
motors were made by Westinghouse and were about 20 to 30 years old. I sent
a
letter to what is now Teco-Westinghouse asking for motor data so I could
tune the motors and drives. They refused to give me any information since
the motors were from a decommissioned nuclear submarine and the
information
I sought was still clssified. All I wanted were the simple flux tables. No
big problem, I ran them myself at the customer expense.

Interesting to see salvaged marine motors in use in heavy manufacturing.




Regards,
Argyle