During a planned dry docking, our servicepartner MarineShaft was contracted to carry out an alignment test of the shaft line. The inspection concluded that the stern tube bearings and shafts were misaligned and damaged.
To eliminate the misalignment in the stern tube housings, the service engineers performed precise laser measurements of the existing stern tube bearing housings misalignment, and these measurements were adapted to the final machining of the re-cast existing stern tube bearings.
The repair solution allowed MarineShaft to restore the alignment of the shaft line without the need to replace the stern tube bearings with new ones.
