My old outfit had a saying for situations like these. If you can't fix it fix it so no other f---er can fix it. The obvious idea behind this was to ensure you always looked like the expert and were never caught out as we all know sometimes it the simple things like a nick in an O ring etc which some...

Something else I never knew

Written by Elizabeth Clark Hardy 1849-1929 , born New York,there are other verses too, but it's an FWE jobby for sure.

image.jpg image.jpg Well D W's write up made me delve into the box and there down the bottom was one if not the one of my mark one eyeball spanners from 1960 when I was starting the apprenticeship. It's a King Dick made in UK and was among the better class of spanners. This one looks like it's neve...

JK's query ref "FIZZERS. " that's the slang used by some folk over here for ULTRASONIC anti fouling electronic gear. Sounders bolted thr' the hull or in some cases from inside mounted in a dry spot in the bilges project Vibration Rays ( Hz's via micro second piezo crystals, like the ones u...

From what I can see of the ship in the photos seems that the hull is all the same colour all over? What about A/F? Do you use TBT over there or is it banned? Seems you have a salt water swimming pool in the engineroom bilges, must be huge. What about John 1's sea suction arrangement? Was it differen...

Well I reckon it needs a Serpent thro these tanks T' eed off of one or two mains/ gensets ?

My research indicates that N.S. Means new Scotland in Latin and as such I would have thought that in progressing you folks over there through the ranks that at least part of the courses would have leant themselves to the wee boy talk, Scottish. How else can you comprehend the workshop manual whilst ...

You need quick reactions and an firm grip on the small crowbar to do this and yes they were still attached when I saw him last. No good doing it the morning after the night before syndrome here. No shaky hands here, if the bar takes charge no one is safe even 40 foot away. Crazy like riding the shaft.

Well still no reply ref the pushrods sadly, herewith is the unusual and not very often happening reason for bent rods, not common but it does happen sometimes. All looks ok with marks all lined up but the camshaft is sitting in an incorrect position several teeth out. Key shears, turns and jams, res...

I once sailed with a second whose party piece was to remove and refit these belts with a small flat crowbar whilst still running. Nifty and of course instantanously done. He used to show off doing it even if the belt didn't need changing. Last time I saw him he still had all his fingers on board.

Is this some kind of heat exchanger here or is it a waste heat system exhausting into the sea chest ? Baffles owing to its size maybe to prevent surging? Seems really specialised and so very different to the norm. I read that it can cause serious problems in the ice when under way? So different.

Didn't know your no 1 reply. Never knew that. Spot on with the thread file, it's actually 55 and 60 degree thread form on this one.

That was a trick question for you and you fell straight into the hole. I just worked out your age. ( yes I know it's online ) but this was a confirmation experiment. BSP is still used over here and some BSW equate near enough to UNC. You can get away with some CAT tube stack housings using a BSW tap...

Just had cause to use these, don't seem to use them as much as years gone by like so many other treasured tools, the one on the right is 1 3/8 BSW, ? Don't know what currency you folks on the Eastern Seaboard used?