Success breeds success....

This is the most successful product that we provided the cradle to grave process on as an FAA DER project. I did this for another company that I was working for at the time. The MD80 was American Airlines venerable workhorse aircraft and is till flying today although there are plans to retire them all in a few years. Each MD80 has two JT8 engines on it and there are two aircraft engine starters - one for each engine. There are many reasons why these parts can go bad but the bottom line is that they do. 

I started this repair by identifying the need at American Airlines mechanics and the shop engineer who always complained that the traditional OEM part and the OEM repairs just didnt work that well. Rubber orings which seal the oil containing unit almost always created wear grooves in the hard anodize or even metal sprayed coatings. So I began the task of creating a better repair. I devised a repair for all the functional diameters of the main starter housing and we did a prototype which American Airlines fell in love with. No when starters came in the mechanics could simply use a Scotchbrite pad and clean up the rubber residue from the main seal diameter and inspect the housing and send it back in to service after rebuilding the unit. My intent was only to repair the features but as time went on American Airlines asked us to perform other repairs on the housing until we did the complete repair including installing carrier sleeves. 

In all we repaired over 900 of these housings at $3000 each and the company still gets them in today. The following is a pictorial history of how the repairs were done. 

The finished product above. The company made lots of money and the customer, American Airlines, saved even more. Each starter housing from Honeywell cost $14,000 new and the repair was only $3000. A true success for everyone involved.

We can help your company achieve the same.