Abstract: A method for in-field improvement or repair of a stationary gas turbine is carried out by successive removal of the gas turbine discs including its multiplicity of blades (buckets) from the common drive shaft. The overlying ring of tip shoes (shroud) and gas feed nozzles (stationary buckets) are similarly sequentially removed. Each disc is axially and circumferentially index marked with respect to the common drive shaft prior to removal of a portion of the drive shaft and substitution of a dummy drive shaft. The dummy shaft in turn is similarly indexed to the turbine disc index marks. Such marking assures that the turbine discs may then be reassembled to the common drive shaft so that no field rebalancing of the common drive shaft, and its assembled air compressor stages, is required for vibration control.