No Signals Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 When the diesel marine has broken - fit one of these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisg Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Thats going to give CW ideas :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Thats going to give CW ideas :-D Where is CW ? Not heard anything since he went down to finish his boat engine :??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papav66 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 All that machinery just to fill a bucket! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Where is CW ? Not heard anything since he went down to finish his boat engine :??? I was wondering that as well Richard, was going to PM you to see if you'd heard from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I was wondering that as well Richard, was going to PM you to see if you'd heard from him. Degsy, after I posted, I noticed he was on the forum, so obviously not still in the bilges. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormin Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 All that machinery just to fill a bucket! But what a way to fill a bucket. A work of art and not just machinery if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Degsy, after I posted, I noticed he was on the forum, so obviously not still in the bilges. :-D Wasn't him it was me,he's in Russia.PW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Dread to think what he may be coming back with then. Or have you finally lost patience and stranded him? :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Wasn't him it was me,he's in Russia.PW. Hi Pat, I bet there is long story there somewhere :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisg Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Wasn't him it was me,he's in Russia.PW. Miss behaving with Paris in his bilges? :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Back to the photo, where is that engine? It looks like it is plumbed in to run so must be a museum somewhere. Is it a picket boat engine as it looks like the right size? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Signals Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 Back to the photo, where is that engine? It looks like it is plumbed in to run so must be a museum somewhere. Is it a picket boat engine as it looks like the right size? Steve I cannot remember the name of the vessel it came from, it was a HMS something and is out of a pinnace. Wonderful word that eh? 'Pinnace' has a nice ring about it to my ears. Dont know what one is by definition, but I bet it was good The observant ones will have noticed the screw at the rear, rather than the bucket at the front It is on loan to the steam museum at Markham Grange in Yorkshire. Most of the content are mill engines but there is a sprinkling of marine ones too. Including one half of a naval paddle tug, the other half is in another museum somewhere I think. Bit careless that. They fire up every first Sunday of the month, fuel supply permitting. Next time I'm over there I will take a pic of the 'details' board and post it in this thread, for those who are interested in such things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 your answer from wikipedia on Pinnace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Thanks, I shall look forward to seeing the notes. In my youth, I used to act as engine or boiler room hand (greaser or stoker to you nautical types!) on the Royal Naval Museum's steam picket boat 198 which had a very similar engine by Mumford. The main difference was that it had a wet sump and the mechanism was closed in which helped things along greatly. In typical steam boat fashion, it had a huge low-speed propellor. If I remember correctly, it was 2' 9" diameter but at 13 knots, it was doing only 120rpm. At that speed, the out-of-balance forces were so much that the bottom of the boat used to bounce and you could feel the deck plates moving up and down. If on the engine, I would throttle back a bit until it stopped as I really didn't want the engine falling through into the 'oggin with me after it! Oh, happy days. 198 can be seen in the mast pond on the rhs as you go through Unicorn gate into Portsmouth Dockyard. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Oh she is gourgeous! YOU Lucky!! to be able to work on her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Nice bunch of lads we allways exchange banter when we see them out on the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I'm pleased to see it being looked after. The trouble is that it absorbs so much money and labour. I spent a day on the brasswork and ended up with green hands and by the following day the shine had gone again. An old marine engineer once said to me that 'a metal is something that corrodes in contact with sea water' and I think he was right! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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