General Electric Company

Robert William Vadney

Yu Wang

Nihan Basaran

August Elwood Pendergast

Murat Alver

David Thomas Brockenbrough

Erkan Karakazan

Ozgen Ozturk

Zafer Tuncali

A generator rotor refurbishing system includes a cutting tool configured to cut generator rotor bars. The cutting tool includes a guide track configured and disposed to be fixedly mounted relative to a generator rotor and a cutting head block moveably mounted relative to the guide track. The cutting tool is configured and disposed to produce a fixed depth cut through a generator rotor bar. A cleaning system is configured for substantially simultaneously cleaning first and second opposing surfaces and first and second opposing edges of the generator rotor bar. The cleaning system includes a guide member and a cleaning assembly moveably mounted to the guide member. The cleaning assembly includes a plurality of cleaning members arranged to clean each of first and second opposing surfaces and first and second opposing edges of the generator rotor bar.

Generator rotor refurbishing system and method of repairing a generator rotor

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Scotia, NY, United States of America

Robert William Vadney