Robert Wallace "Bob" Corkum 77, Pleasantville, Lunenburg Co. It is with great sadness that the family announce the passing of Robert on Sunday, July 19, losing his 9 years battle with cancer. He was the only son of the late Walter and Letha (Cook) Corkum. He went to sea at an early age wor...

Excellent overview, thank you.

I used the engineroom manual for the pneumatic system to learn about the symbols and such. They have a full description of the system operation, drawings and troubleshooting.
Not much help I know, but if you are not getting anything from Google, I've not really seen anything on pneumatics.

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conrod wrote:and its called PPE !!

Nah, you're reading the tag's reflection in a mirror. It is actually a dd (extra)

That's the "used but good" spare

Unless you are in China, where they have a cottage industry making masks from bra cups.
Would you like yours frilly

Just like every other engineer from 25-30 years ago.

They are both vent lines. I guess I forgot to mention that.

Man,on man, all that asbestos packing on the link from China...scares me to think how much of that I used over the years

I haven't started one of them in 18 years. The only thing different that I remember, was you had to hand crank the cylinder lubricators before blowing through. Everything else was as any other marine engine.

I was just looking at a staffing poster for Transport Canada Marine-they are looking for 30 inspectors. Same issue as everyone else with an aging workforce.

Jeeze, four times.Yeck. The thought of doing it once was enough to make me sick to my stomach

If you can post here, we might be able to give some help, but my 2nds are years behind me and steam to boot.

No, that's fine.
I appreciate you checking into it for me.

We have had good luck using Kohinoor packing on our older ships.

If you are doing an engine job and need some sort of special tool, it should be part of the engines inventory. Have you checked with the engine manufacturer?