Service difficulty report · Heat Exchanger · Doug DC873F

Difficulty date
March 21, 2005
Submitted
March 30, 2005
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N805DH
Make and model
Doug DC873F
Aircraft serial
46125
Aircraft time
80,855 hours, 29,583 cycles
Part
Heat Exchanger
Condition
Cracked
Location
Rt Primary
Part time
80,855 hours, 29,583 cycles
Stage of operation
IN
How discovered
V
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
K

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

0.500 CRACK IN SKIN OF RT PRIMARY HEAT EXCHANGER AFT LWR CORNER STA -12.000 L-27R (MAJOR REPAIR). PERFORMED MAJOR REPAIR IAW FAA FORM 8110-3 DATED 03-16-05 DWG X83-R05, REV IR DATED 03-01-05. REMOVED FASTENERS IAW SRM 51-1-21 PG 1. CUT OUT DAMAGED SECTION IAW DWG X83-R07. PERFORMED NDT INSP IAW DC8 NDT SPM PART 06-10-01-001. FABRICATED REPAIR DOUBLER (AL2024-T3 0.050) REPAIR TRIPLER (AL2024-T3 0.063) AND FILLER (AL2024T3 0.100) IAW DWG X83-R05. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED AREA AND REPAIR PARTS IAW SRM 51-1-8B. INSTALLED REPAIR PARTS IAW DWG X83-R05 SRM 51-1-20D PG 9, SRM 51-1-21 PG 1, SRM 51-3-0 PG 1, SRM 51-1-26. TORQUED IAW SRM 51-3-1.

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