General Electric Company

Ron Souther

Wayne Ray Grady

Mark Samuel Bailey

Jere Allen Johnson, Jr

James Christopher Monaghan

Mark Dean Pezzutti

Robert Randolph Berry

Alistair Smith

Jesus Palomino

Methods for repairing and restoring water manifold pipes, particularly locomotive diesel motor water manifolds exhibiting excessive corrosion around at least one water port. Exemplary methods include inserting a pipe segment into a selected water port and using the inserted pipe segment as a build-up or brazing form. Braze material is applied in one layers around and against the inserted pipe segment. Excess braze material and the pipe segment are thereafter removed in order to restore the manifold pipe to an original dimension.

Method for repair of a locomotive diesel motor water manifold

A fuel nozzle assembly for a gas turbine includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced vanes with holes for flowing fuel from plenums within the vanes through holes in the vane walls for premixing with air. To tune the nozzle assembly, the holes are resized by reforming the existing holes to a predetermined hole size, securing plugs into the holes, and forming holes through at least certain of the plugs to diameters less than the diameter of the existing holes.

Methods for tuning fuel injection assemblies for a gas turbine fuel nozzle

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