http://setsail.com/genset-sound-shields-good-or-bad-idea/ A New Paradigm for Cruising Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://setsail.com/genset-sound-shields-good-or-bad-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Peter Bateman Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:25:11 +0000 http://setsail.com/?p=2521#comment-45 We have run 600 hp compressors and air boosters in the kalahari desert for years without sound shields or dust covers for exactly the same reason. It has saved me two compressors so far. One when a member of the crew left his mattress on the catwalks because it was warmer near the engine and it then blew into the fans when started up. The other when an oil pipe blew on a turbo spraying hot oil onto a glowing turbo.... seen as it occurred and closed down. keep the covers off! We have run 600 hp compressors and air boosters in the kalahari desert for years without sound shields or dust covers for exactly the same reason. It has saved me two compressors so far. One when a member of the crew left his mattress on the catwalks because it was warmer near the engine and it then blew into the fans when started up. The other when an oil pipe blew on a turbo spraying hot oil onto a glowing turbo…. seen as it occurred and closed down. keep the covers off!

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