TSHD Reynaert

“TSHD Reynaert ” (Trailing suction hopper dredge (Belgian)).

Dredge general maintenance including the following outstanding ítems:

a) hopper steel renewal;
b) tailshaft generator maintenance;
c) several electric motors maintenance, including the bow thruster electric motor;
d) bow thruster propeller blades repair;
e) sheave bronze bushes renewal of the cranes and of the several manoeuvering arrengements of the dredging system;
f) provision crane general overhauling;
g) general disassembling and maintenance of the three generator diesel engines, including: cylinder heads with their valves and valve seats, pistons, connecting rods, liners, oil filters;
h) disassembling and maintenance of the three gear boxes clutches;
i) dredging pump rotor machining;
j) disassembling of hopper water overflow device, steel renewal and central hydraulic cylinder replacement;
k) dredging pipe miscelaneous jobs:

• individual pipes disassembling;
• fabrication, welding and following machining of their pad eyes;
• renewal of washing pipe shaped parts;
• disassembling of its universal joint elbows to fill up with electric welding and to machine "in situ" their faces and holes arms;
• interior surface filling up of universal joint elbow with hard electrode and with a specific geometrical filling up design, in order to minimize the abrasive wear;
• machining of all the holes of the universal joint eight sided structure.

l) engine and pump room pipes renewal;
m) two rudder blades disassembling, bush housings "in situ" machining and new bushes machining and assembling.