broken plate

[J Patrick Draine]

Well they aren't ALL quite that expensive &c. There's a crusty ol' fellow in
the greater Boston area who has been doing it forever & (at least a couple
years ago) was very very reasonable. Charged a colleague about $450 to mend
a shattered plate. We invited him to give a tech presentation for the local
PTG meeting. While he had a slide show of various boilers, engines, & other
heavy duty stuff that he had mended better than new, he really wasn't ready
to teach *us* how to do it in one evening. A bit taciturn, and protective of
his "trade secrets." Can't blame him for that, and his prices were extremely
reasonable.Patrick Draine

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Fenton Murray <fmurray at cruzio.com> wrote:

> They fly these guys out to ships dead in the water to repair engine
> blocks.
> They had just returned from a power plant in another country when I was
> there. Pretty amazing. They have dozens of patents on their hardware.
> Fenton
>
>
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