Buck"et (?), n. slang

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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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