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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 14, 2015 19:18:32 GMT 1
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Post by davey on Mar 14, 2015 20:08:44 GMT 1
Must be one of those wastsilla kits from finland  ? |
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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 14, 2015 20:35:13 GMT 1
Ooh How dare you slag Wartsila off. No it's a good one from Mitsubishi  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2015 16:01:04 GMT 1
the really neat thing about these babies is the head and injectors all come off in one big assembly and will fit any cylinder on the engine
they're flat out doing 300rpm
Its amazing how they change out the heads, pistons and liners whilst the block is still in the ship
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Post by stusco on Mar 16, 2015 16:37:55 GMT 1
Reminds me of my youth standing on a crank journal de glazing a liner with a half round scraper,mind you I don't think I could fit in the liner now so being fat can have its benefits
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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 17, 2015 20:52:12 GMT 1
What i like about them is the sound. They sound a bit like Ivor the Engine with a screaming turbo charger noise. This is a small one the bore from the liner is only 50cm. The biggest i have seen has a 96cm bore. Personally i do not like to work on them to big and cumbersome. Even the bolt that holds the locking plate in place needs a 32mm spanner!
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Post by steven on Mar 17, 2015 21:49:48 GMT 1
Hi, Cool pics. I spent 9 years in the Merchant Navy and was a 3rd engineer officer. As you said, that one is flat out at approx 300 rpm so will be classed as a "medium speed" diesel. Cars, trucks buses etc are classed as "high speed" diesels. The slow speed diesels are a bit bigger and are flat out at approx 120 rpm or so. The biggest engine I worked on was a slow speed 2 stroke, Sulzer 8RND 90, 8 cylinders at 900 mm bore, shaft horse power was in the region of 30,000 hp or so. I found a video of the engine on utube, in the video the boat is called Fort Rosalie, when I was on it it was called Fort Grange, I was also on Fort Austin and Fort George amoungst others. I was also on a couple of old ships with steam turbines as main propulsion, you learn to make gaskets etc properly when the main steam pressure on these boats was in the region of 800 psi (eight hundred psi.).......scarey !  Thanks for posting the pics, seems like a lifetime ago I was buggering about with stuff like that. steven. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Fort_Rosalie_%28A385%29 |
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Post by stusco on Mar 17, 2015 22:19:31 GMT 1
I worked on the steam turbines on the RFA Olna and the diesels on the Orange leaf,bramble leaf,gold rover,black rover they had2x v16 crossleys,also worked on the sir geraint it had two strait tens with massive pistons you can stand on,nearly got killed on the Olwen when a chain block snapped holding the 22ton tailshaft when I was working under it miissed me by an inch I still crap myself when I think about it.
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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 17, 2015 22:28:49 GMT 1
I have been in the bar a few times on the Fort Austin I think it was 10 pence for a pint and 30 pence for a Vodka that was at the end of the eighties, I thought they would have been all scrapped now. They don't build them like they used too!!!
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Post by stusco on Mar 17, 2015 22:48:00 GMT 1
Sixteen years working for the navy never once got an invite to the mess ,heard the stories about the prices thought they were urban myths
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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 18, 2015 20:58:31 GMT 1
Yes it's true. I did an aprenticeship in Devonport dockyard. There was roughly about 20 of us with bikes and one, Gareth used to be in the store to supply the RFA boats. We would go onboard have a couple of drinks and then go into town. He was also very popular at christmas if you wanted half a cow or sheep Ha Ha.
The one thing i remeber most about that time, is we all ended up in hospital except for one.
I apoligize to those who thinks this thread is about yamaha's
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Post by stusco on Mar 18, 2015 23:27:54 GMT 1
I did mine at rosyth worked in devonport a few times
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Post by anyoldiron on Mar 19, 2015 3:39:42 GMT 1
NAAFI ( No Ambition And Fcukall Interest) prices  , bottle of Grolsch 30p in the 80s, nothing new about getting loaded up before hitting the town................literally hehehehe |
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Post by bazzer5115 on Mar 19, 2015 7:52:02 GMT 1
Small world,I did my apprenticeship at Devonport dockyard 1976 coppersmith.Still contracting in there now and again.
Baz
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Post by stusco on Mar 19, 2015 16:36:52 GMT 1
Fitter/turner class of 84 Rosyth,no such thing anymore at Rosyth they're called pipies now all they do is put kit aircraft carriers together no skill required
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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 19, 2015 20:29:37 GMT 1
Those were the days. The things you could get done for some teabags |
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Post by Tobyjugs on Mar 19, 2015 20:38:08 GMT 1
Small world,I did my apprenticeship at Devonport dockyard 1976 coppersmith.Still contracting in there now and again. Baz I went back there about 5 years ago for a Portugese boat. I was escorted under security to the boat and back. The one thing that struck me was how quiete it was not a soul to be seen. I started my apprenticeship in 83 very busy then, even had bars in the place. Now i can't even FART without a safety permit  |
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Post by stusco on Mar 19, 2015 21:32:19 GMT 1
Once went to the Avondale for a bar lunch never seen the topless barmaids though
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Post by bazzer5115 on Mar 19, 2015 23:55:52 GMT 1
As I contracting in Devonport dockyard at the moment I getting all my fabrication,welding,sandblasting etc etc done there.And most of it still done for a packet of tea bags!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 16:44:58 GMT 1
you guys get it good
down here its a carton of beer, mind you its amazing how far it will go
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Post by sab350 on Mar 20, 2015 17:52:37 GMT 1
Sounds like merchant navy / RFA forum. I am also ex RFA started as a motorman in 1989, passed my class four in 1990 and 3rd engineer from then on , left in 1995 sailed on fort boats, leaf boats in the gulf and one lsl oh and a couple rover boats. Good times, very cheap bar and interesting job. Now I'm making beds what a difference.
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, bottle of Grolsch 30p in the 80s, nothing new about getting loaded up before hitting the town................literally hehehehe 
