Thank You Metengr for your comments. In this instance the studs are remomved. This is a Westinghouse unit. Both GE and Westinghouse had Technical Advisory on the extent that they considered the internal stud threads acceptable, although the diction was vague. In this case the existing stud...
Project involves a 1 1/2" x 8tpi steam turbine stud and its fitment to the internal threads of the turbine casing horizontal joint flange. In defining the acceptability of the internal flange studs we would be looking to insert the stud into the flange a distance of 1 times the thread diameter...
