Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

Getting that crankshaft into the engine room looked almost as difficult as getting our old couch out of the house....

Reminds me of something my brother told me - he spent 1970 in Antarctica, and tells me that part of the deck cargo on their ship, the Thala Dan, was a spare piston and connecting rod for the engine - if I remember rightly, a five cylinder two stroke of about 2,000hp, turning a single variable pitch propeller.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

installed in 3 days or 12 U-tube minutes,,
worth every second..

Crankshaft exchange on the MS Zaandam cruise ship - YouTube

Worked with a bloke who'd been an ERA (possibly chief ERA) on the destroyer Vampire (now at the Maritime Museum). To take out and change an engine part they once had to cut holes through the deck and side of the ship, remove the old, insert the new, then weld plates over all the holes.

Also read a story of a Corvette in WW2 that required engine repairs mid ocean. They had to shut down the boilers and sit dead in the water for close to 20 hours...drifting...staying silent...powerless to move should a U-Boat or enemy plane spot them and try to sink them...stress levels of the crew were through the roof. Great relief when the chief reported they could restart and move off.

And while they were dead in the water, the engine room crew were probably banging and crashing mechanical components advertising their whereabouts to anyone listening...... nail biting would be an understatement!

Not quite on the scale of that crank shaft, At the steel mill at Hasting we did some thing similar. It was a shut down on what is or was called the hot strip mill. Had to get a new drive shaft of about a ton ore more down a flight of stairs, ninety degree left hand turn, then along a corridor and then into the drive shaft tunnel which was at right angle to the corridor. Ahh those where fun times. Well some times. Have a few times over the years moved heavy items around with chain blocks and the like.
Cheers Hall

That engine certainly doesn't have much of a stroke,looking at the crank.
An amazing job.

I remember, once having to put a crane barge alongside a trawler to lift out one of it's V8 Cats. It took 3 hours of sitting in the crane inching inching up and inching down, slewing left and right, jibing in and out, and all there at once.
Then when I put it on the deck of the barge it rolled onto the side with the hole that the conn rod had put in the block and I had to jump out of the crane to prevent an oil spill into the harbour. What fun.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

I remember, once having to put a crane barge alongside a trawler to lift out one of it's V8 Cats. It took 3 hours of sitting in the crane inching inching up and inching down, slewing left and right, jibing in and out, and all there at once.
Then when I put it on the deck of the barge it rolled onto the side with the hole that the conn rod had put in the block and I had to jump out of the crane to prevent an oil spill into the harbour. What fun.

I see the probem here, the 3208 should never have been below deck. It should have been up the sharp end, attached to a chain and winch.