JK , Can't find it? JJ, what's stamped on yours? Can you help us out here?

Ha, know what you mean, No it was a rattler of an 16 V MTU, one of a pair in a German built ship. Just waiting for the bang or if it visits your way what's the legal re your MCA re the " doctored " emissions I wonder? Not an easy one to find but if your authorities were to find out re a cr...

Just done my fifth DPF regeneration but sadly it's turned into what we call over here a " since you jobby ". MIL light on control panel, FCR shows emission problems present. Strip Cat assembly, clean out soot and carbon deposits present , reassemble and test. Scope both upstream and downst...

Why the shaft of the bearing scraper, by the makers name, VL Churchill was the make over here. Mine is stamped A to the right of the manufacturers stamp. There is a very important reason for this. If you can't locate it perhaps a bar magnet?

Good answer JK but in order to achieve your extra Chiefs Ticket the powers to be require you to complete one further question. Right or left hand? Just looked at mine, it's stamped with an A? Careful now.

JK, your bearing scraper metric or imperial?

General Electric turbines then, moving up your way I see, good memories of the old turbine days, loads of asbestos in the air every day like a smog, can't believe I am still running on six to date anyway. Hours spent dienutting all those lower casing studs about 5 inches apart, hundreds of them on e...

See she was a single screw double reduction steam turbine ship, don't know what make though. Usual stories bandied about re oil pressure feed / boiler probs seemingly 15000 feet down , don't know re AIS or EPIRP angles as yet.

Over here they call them " loss adjusters " but as you say the old crew are moving on and retiring and are certainly being replaced with the bullshit merchants. The only people who score well out of this are the lawyers/barristers and do they score well out of each situation sometimes it r...

What a state the world is coming to now concerning shipping/ foreign crews/ wages etc. We had a Russian Bulker over UK on the south coast tied up alongside for months concerning non payment of crews wages. Admiralty high court writ pinned to the mast so after several weeks owners stopped supplying f...

Talking of evil chemicals I am using a product in Malaga, Spain on valve chests and strum boxes which is freely available over the counter in all supermarkets. It's called Aqua Fuerte and is in one litre squirt plastic bottles. I can write my initials back to bare metal underwater, yes underwater in...

Sounds different to the norm, personally I have been very fortunate ref galloping dermo ( as we used to call it over here ) after a lifetime of putting the pinkies in fueloil, hydraulic oils, battery acid and all kinds of stuff I never got any dermo probs and a lot of my era was the pre glove era. H...

Pouring out of the workshop wicket door not all apprentices headed straight for home as the hardened drinker hands were now offering an exclusive opportunity to join the elite 15 pint members club. This meant a return to the first scene of the crime, namely the Sailors Return Pub on the quay whereby...

Thinking about this model my guess is that it was built by a person who was in the navy on a warship but who always wanted to sail on tankers but never really had any idea of deck manifolds layouts. He now obviously runs a plumbers shop and his hobby is boat/aircraft modelling. Correct?

What's with all the pipe Work? Is that a little air cooled diesel model engine on deck?