>uncanny the number of Q posts that occurred on night shift.
Prolly cuz Q has a day job.
It's hard to tell what's melted vs what mangled in that pic.
Besides, I think that's the compressor. I could be wrong; I'm not a turbine expert. But I have watched nearly everything on this YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ/videos
Nah. i take that back. That's probably a turbine section.
Here is the best copy of that pic I could find.
That doesn't look like melted metal to be. I think that stuff is just a chunk of whatever it scrapped against to cause the row of notches in the other blades. You can see more material of the same color wedged between the blades on the opposite side.