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- Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Numbering of main engine and auxilliary engine cylinders
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Re: Numbering of main engine and auxilliary engine cylinders
Hi, Thank you for your reply D Winsor, that satisfied our Principal Nautical Examiner and saved the day for Marine Engineers.
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Workshop
- Topic: Numbering of main engine and auxilliary engine cylinders
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10694
Numbering of main engine and auxilliary engine cylinders
Our pesky principal nautical examiner has posed a question none of our marine engineers have been able to answer, why are main engine cylinders numbered from forward (free end) to aft (flywheel end) and generators numbered from flywheel end (regardless of orientation of alternator forward to aft) to...