IMS Failure - Need Advice

[vijen6]

Originally Posted by linklaw

11,000 pictures of failed IMS bearings. Wow. That is the first concrete statement I have read on any discussion forum about the number of documented failures. Assuming there were 200,000 engines built with the IMS bearing, that would mean that Jake has documentation of around a 5% failure rate and that doesn't even take into consideration the additional failures he doesn't have photos of.

Uhmm .. I'm not following your logic .. for a single engine failure Jake could take 1-1000 pictures documenting the tear down / build up ? I don't think you can assume each picture is a unique failed IMS bearing.