Buck"et (?), n.
slang
0.
General Electric shop slang for one of the many blades on a power generation turbine.
Of all the
shop slang at my place of employment,
bucket was one term i just couldn't seem to wrap my head around. Why in the
hell would anyone refer to the blades on a power generation turbine as a "bucket"? Outer setback face, inner web, angel wing, vertical clearance lift check, diaphragm partition - all of this i understood with little or no help. But
bucket?
i puzzled about that until my puzzler was sore, so i finally asked my boss. He paused for a moment, cleared his throat and said,
"GE makes impulse turbines. The individual blades have a deeper curved profile than the blades on reaction turbines."
FYI, Westinghouse makes reaction turbines. They refer to the blades as "blades".
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