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Dear Mr. Wilson:
In response to your request of June 17, 1971, we have
examined into the information sent to you by Mr. L. A. Sies,
an employee of the Naval Air Rework Facility, North Island,
San Diego, California. Mrs. Sies claimed that usable reworked
bearings, excess to the current needs of the Rework Facility,
were being d iposed of as scrap because a Navy instruction did
not permit their return to the Navysuply system.
We interviewed Mr. Sies, discussed the matters included
in this report with officials at the Rework Facility, and re-
viewed instructions and other pertinent documents.
Our examination showed that the Navy instruction and cur-
rent procedures provided for the use, in all feasible instances,
of reworked bearings in the repair and overhaul processes at
the Rework Facility. Those reworked bearings not needed for
current jobs, or not anticipated to be needed for jobs in the
foreseeable future, either are transferred to another rework
facility which has a need for such bearings or are determined
to be excess to all known needs and are disposed of as scrap.
We have confirmed that the Navy instruction does not
permitireworked bearings to be returned to the Navy supply
system;, because, at the present time, there is a lack of stan-
dardilation throughout the Navy pertaining to (1) inspection
procedures, (2) quality control, and (3) qualifications'of re-
work personnel. As a result, assurance does not exist that
reworked bearings will be equivalent to new bearings.
We were told that, if reworked bearings were returned
to the supply system as bearings that were usable but not
equivalent to new, they would have to be given different Fed-
eral Stock Numbers to distinguish them from new bearings and
to identify each application which they were qualified for and
that additional catalog and price data would have to be estab-
lished. We were told also that these and other supply system
changes would involve a substantial cost.
50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-1971](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobablat0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)