Re: [Vic] r.e. R700/R711

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Craig Haber (albatross@harnessnet.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> R711 took approximately 2 years to restore.
> R700 is thought to be in reasonable mechanical and boiler condition, BUT
> (and it's a huge but with restoration projects), invariably, the further
> you go, the more problems you find.  Given the experience gained in the
> restoration of R711, I would think it should require less time to
> restore than R711, but again, you never know what will be uncovered in
> such a project.

Will the modifications be more or less identical to R711, or have some
additional modifications been thought up? 

250kVA turbo alternator on the tender for hep? (It has been done before!)

Cheers
David