Backwall strike braze repair
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsEthan Conrad Schaeffer, James Scott Flanagan, James J. Murray, III, Archie L Swanner, Jr., Logan Tyler Nelson
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Abstract
A process of repairing a component includes identifying a void in a component; determining at least one approximate physical configuration of the void; inserting borescope into the component in order to view the void; providing a repair rod approximately equivalent to at least one of the least one approximate physical configuration of the void; inserting the repair rod into component; confirming insertion of the repair rod in the void; separating the repair rod to leave a repair plug in the void; and depositing braze paste over the repair plug in the void.
Claims18
A process of repairing a component, the process comprising:
- determining at least one approximate physical configuration of a void in the component;
- providing a repair rod approximately equivalent to the at least one approximate physical configuration of the void;
- inserting the repair rod into the void;
- separating the repair rod to leave a repair plug in the void, wherein a first end of the repair plug abuts an inner wall of the component, and wherein a separation point of the repair plug from the repair rod at a second end of the repair plug extends into an interior of the component;
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- depositing a braze paste over the repair plug in the void.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.