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Emrys

(7,941 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2023, 11:41 PM Jan 2023

Shoddy super glue repairs to Trident submarine leave officials fuming, say reports

Civilian workers reportedly tried to cut corners by sticking some bolts back on to vital cooling pipes, but the hasty mend was discovered when one fell off
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Civilians said to be carrying out work on HMS Vanguard – repairs that started in 2015 – reportedly glued some bolts back, that held insulation in place, on to essential cooling pipes, that had been sheared off through over-tightening.
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Alarmed Ben Wallace was reported to be angry at the news, demanding a meeting and “assurances about future work”, while a Navy source was reported to have said: “It’s a disgrace. You can’t cut corners with nuclear."
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The bungled repair was reportedly only discovered when one bolt fell off during checks aboard the 16,000-ton ballistic missile-armed vessel, which was first launched in 1992.

HMS Vanguard was undergoing a dry dock refurbishment and refuel at HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, which was £300million over budget.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shoddy-super-glue-repairs-trident-29091480
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Shoddy super glue repairs to Trident submarine leave officials fuming, say reports (Original Post) Emrys Jan 2023 OP
Holy crap. What's going to happen when that sub submerges in the deep ocean... brush Feb 2023 #1
Something like this is probably why my son's carrier The Unmitigated Gall Feb 2023 #2
Corporate America-cut costs to profit even if it kills someone Stargazer99 Feb 2023 #3

brush

(57,471 posts)
1. Holy crap. What's going to happen when that sub submerges in the deep ocean...
Wed Feb 1, 2023, 01:43 AM
Feb 2023

where the pressure on welds and bolts increases to ten-fold levels?

Damn. Hope they check all the welds, seams and bolts.

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,522 posts)
2. Something like this is probably why my son's carrier
Wed Feb 1, 2023, 02:05 AM
Feb 2023

Is coming back to port ahead of schedule.

Someone should go to prison over this; hundreds of sailors taking billions of dollars hundreds of feet beneath the surface with what these chuckleheads have done.

Stargazer99

(2,930 posts)
3. Corporate America-cut costs to profit even if it kills someone
Wed Feb 1, 2023, 05:38 AM
Feb 2023

still citizens are gaslighted into thinking government ought to be drowned in the bathtub, only enitity that has enough power to stop the maiming and death that allows corps to get away with this. How much you want to bet that business didn't want to correct the problem properly because it would diminish profit.
Don't blame the workers they take orders from business

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