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Old 12th Nov 2010, 17:26
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DERG
 
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Hiya Bolty

See if you can dig up something on a Shell turbine oil called ASTO 560.

This oil coked up another RR Trent around 2002.
see:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20040528X00693&ntsbno=DCA04IA002&akey=1

It was withdrawn by RR. the oil that is..

I checked and this oil is still widely available, maybe Qantas are still using it. Who knows?

Anyway the bottom line is it was coking the vent tubes from the bearing.
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