Marine Diesel Engine Build Video

[lynnl]

Yeah, best to let sleeping dogs lie. One of my daughters, in tracing her ancestry back, has now discovered that my wife is descended from King Edward...

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You'll be able to better maintain alignment and flatness in the panel by limiting the width of the individual boards to about 2 or 2 1/2" (no more...

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Probably metric degrees...

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Yeah, those game cameras are mighty handy to have! A couple of years ago we had a raccoon infestation, with the boogers getting up into the attic. Finally...

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What you're describing is "Oilite" ...usually made into the form of bushings, through a process of sintering powdered bronze, (and maybe other...

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I'm not sure I'd call it "odd." In fact, it seems to be the standard procedure for some, to never bother reading the prior inputs from others,...

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With a 10 foot bell, I can understand why you would appreciate any help! ...

[lynnl]

Remind me to steer clear of those Hoover Dustettes! In fact we'd all be wise to go to "great lengths" to avoid them....

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For such over sized things as these crankshafts and such, is it possible they could be machined as smaller sub-units and then joined together in some...

[lynnl]

Yeah, I've seen those Wartsila engines (i.e. videos) before.
I wonder what speed they turn. That German (MTU) turns at 1150 rpm, which they described...

[lynnl]

If you have about 49 minutes to kill here's an interesting look at building a huge marine diesel engine in Germany, from the casting and machining to...

[lynnl]

Who knows...? Maybe that was a factor in the little fracas at shoprat's workplace.

Nevertheless, most civil folks would first try "...

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Oh... That's speaking of the private messages, not posting a new thread on the board.
But their choice of wordage certainly invites confusion....

[lynnl]

(???) Well, you posted this one. There must've been some particular feature of that denied attempt that disqualified it. You said "things",...

[lynnl]

Yep.

(a little humor)
At my base in Vietnam (Tuy Hoa) we had a radio station that was manned much of the time by volunteer DJ's. A...

[lynnl]

I got to visit the The Little Big Horn battle site a few years back. An interesting place for sure.
Some years back there was a pararie fire that...

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I'm sure everyone remembers this one: "...on the bed post overnight..."

...or how about this one: "...I don't want to g...

[lynnl]

That "...short part of one line..." may need some additional qualification. Otherwise someone will offer something like "...love you..."...

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The Standard Modern lathe is Canadian ...unless it has changed recently....

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Looks like a wire brush attachment mounted on the angle grinder, yet all of the entanglement seems to be on the back side of the brush disk. That strikes...