That's slurpy fluid, ie wine, you don't keep that in your toolbox do you? This is tool you sometimes work with, and if the job goes ok then you slurp the vino collapso to celebrate.

Old firm, going since 1966 apparently, green is the colour for Ireland as its Irish firm. Dear little soul, MAK for main, ( Mr Caterpillar now I see ) good job they got the C.G. Right for the launch though.

Come on BP you're halfway there, don't stop now.

Ships tender is ashore about 4 miles from the ship. Coxswain radios in engine won't start. Have a go Jo reports fuel system completely blocked solid, stuff in tank like half a tennis ball de laminating and packed stack pipe solid ( some wag lost fuel cap and in the tennis ball went ) Ship only has o...

Re the no air problem I have used diving bottles for a similar problem in the past but you really need a portable compressor as although it's about 3'000 p.s.i. It takes several goes to fill the emergency tank on its own I found. I was thinking of a different approach? Bit of a brain racket methinks...

Very good comprehensive answer, but alas not the answer I am looking for? ( much more quicker way ) No primer arrangement at all fitted, you are of course assuming this is not a common rail engine whereby ECU controls the injection timing.

Just done an injection pump change on one of the ships lifeboats. The lift pump is a vacuum pump built into the injection pump. Can't bleed the system, flattened battery after battery, no go. Quick way over this?

What about this one then, ship trapped in solid ice, can't get out for months, supplies low, wife's nagging again, eventually thaw starts to set in but all compressors down and can't be repaired without shoreside help. How can you start the mains with no outside air available from the ships compress...

Bet you daren't sign onto a ship Carribean bound , I reckon you would jump ship, postcards to the wife, all that stuff. All that heat would draw you further than gun powder could ever blow you. Only ice from now on in the gin glass. The bigger the gin the bigger the waves jobby methinks?

Probably the driving bands Martin!

:o The plant I worked on had two Hall Compressors in an engineroom which was about 100 feet high. Up on the catwalks and onto the roof were several large condensers water cooled. In a large loft space over the cold storage rooms were brine coolers. Several times a week these brine coolers had to be ...

Blimey, we have a saying over here, when bragging in the pub about sea trips of rough weather, the bigger the gin, the bigger the waves , but what's your equivalent saying over there ?

The main knack here was to set someone else up to do the job

What's the most unusual job ever carried out by anyone out there? Not the normal run of the mill jobs but anywhere on the ship? Something different.

Just been up top brushing up on my prop walking, great fun.