The importance of ER checks.

[Boatsb]

My boat is better equipped than most.


I have a spud cannon and 2 cans of propellant for our next party

 

[saltshaker]

You've got them, called temperature gauges (engine and gear) and, as a last resort, bilge pump indicator light when the engine bay is overtopped. That gauge was my notice a hose clamp failed and 9 gallons of DD's best was sloshing around. In the alternative, I guess you could put a float switch in the bays and tie into your high water alarm.

As for cameras, Murphy states that as soon as you take the camera off the top of the motor the ceiling will probably fall in. Besides, a sump mounted camera might miss one undeniable law of physics: smoke (and steam) rises. There's no doubt cameras are nice. But I wonder if I might skip that walk around if everything looks good on the screen? I'm basically a lazy individual.

temperature was perfect as this was a raw water leak. The engine beds are pretty big on my boat and while the water would flow over and into a bilge compartment with pumps, the salt spray all over the ER would be there long before that happened.

 

[Boatsb]

Is it fixed yet?

 

[Walter P]

This really is a tough crowd....

Walt

 

[saltshaker]

Is it fixed yet?

Not yet. We didn't get back until around 7:30 and the ER was still hot when I had to leave. Hopefully I can deal with it this week so we can go out this weekend

 

[Fish Tales]

I don't know about Jack's Detroits, but my MTU's take about 3 days to get to normal temperature. That is alot of Iron to cool off.

And yes, beer can canons were a blast back then. Mine would blow apart sometimes, so I had it wedged between the lid and handle of an old dairy milk can. I could sit on the lid, reach behind with my lighter and BOOM.

Good times.

Have a safe week,
Tim

 

[Pascal]

Good blowers are key to fast cooling something builders have finally realized. The 84 lazzara inrun as a pair of massive 240v blowers pulling air from the house sides, not the hull and with the transom door open within an hour you can work in there. By morning the C32s are stone cold

A good upgrade on our hatts is to put AC blowers which I m planning on doing during the repower

 

[Fish Tales]

I also have some really good blowers, but always worried about the amount of salt air coming in to replace the hot. Do not want too much salt buildup. I do know underway the engines eat alot of air, and salt air is entering, but the engines are tearing it up. On cool down that air is moving across everything and exiting, so I assume corrosive deposits are being left behind.

Any input?

Tim

 

[ageless]

A good surveyor friend of mine suggested spraying the engine room systems with dish soap. The salt and oil won't adhere to the unit, wash down will clean the engine room and remove deposits

 

[Walter P]

Good greif, another thing to add to our maintenance list...

Walt

 

[Boatsb]

and dish soap in the er is illegal.

 

[racclarkson@gmail.com]

A good surveyor friend of mine suggested spraying the engine room systems with dish soap. The salt and oil won't adhere to the unit, wash down will clean the engine room and remove deposits

I think you're a lot better at aiming that hose than I am. And what does drain into the engine bay has to be pumped out somehow and somewhere which was Scott's point, I think.

As to the blowers and salt, I stick a squirrel cage at the ER entrance to push in some cool air when done for the day. By morning things are pretty nice. I don't see evidence of any salt. Ought to be some crystalized on something, say top of gen. sound shield? Unless your engines' intakes are piped directly from your air intakes, air is swirling all around that ER before it winds its way into the airseps.

Sometimes it rains cleaning the air some. Maybe it all averages out in the end.

 

[bobk]

I don't know about Jack's Detroits, but my MTU's take about 3 days to get to normal temperature. That is alot of Iron to cool off.

And yes, beer can canons were a blast back then. Mine would blow apart sometimes, so I had it wedged between the lid and handle of an old dairy milk can. I could sit on the lid, reach behind with my lighter and BOOM.

Good times.

Have a safe week,
Tim

In the 1950's we used to use empty one gallon paint cans and fired them with calcium carbide. Spit on the carbide to make acetylene, light and BOOM! Thanks for the memories. My dad said he used the milk cans.. Yikes.

Bobk

 

[Fish Tales]

Or how about plastic milk jug with pure oxygen from grandmas supplemental bottle. Add couple drops of lighter fluid, one small lady finger in a hole in the plastic cap, and raise a spare tire off the ground 5 feet. Called them acetylene bombs.

Wonder we made it out of childhood.

Sorry for the diversion down memory lane,
Tim

 

[Boatsb]

Think of all the great things we did as kids and survived without the need of therapists and puppies. Although I love dogs and cant imagine life without one. Maybe thats because I did all that crazy stuff.

 

[Fish Tales]

In high school, we were allowed to have our shotguns and rifles in racks in the back window of our pickups.

Pocket knives in our pockets.

I think we are straying from the thread. Sorry I will be quiet.

Tim

 

[Scarlett]

And how did we survive without helmets, elbow pads, seat belts, etc, etc, etc. John

 

[saltshaker]

I don't know about Jack's Detroits, but my MTU's take about 3 days to get to normal temperature. That is alot of Iron to cool off.

And yes, beer can canons were a blast back then. Mine would blow apart sometimes, so I had it wedged between the lid and handle of an old dairy milk can. I could sit on the lid, reach behind with my lighter and BOOM.

Good times.

Have a safe week,
Tim

I run the big AC blowers and fans while running and have the tstats set to 110 so they run after shutdown

 

[saltshaker]

I also have some really good blowers, but always worried about the amount of salt air coming in to replace the hot. Do not want too much salt buildup. I do know underway the engines eat alot of air, and salt air is entering, but the engines are tearing it up. On cool down that air is moving across everything and exiting, so I assume corrosive deposits are being left behind.

Any input?

Tim

You won't get salt through those. The intakes should have filters on them too

 

[krush]

and dish soap in the er is illegal.

source of this rule?