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Matt Colie
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Wackster wrote on Tue, 12 December 2017 17:26Matt,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. That about sums it up for me. Found a nice diagram for 17 of the 18 grease points here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/532691462165025085/. I Will have to track this image down in my actual manuals.
BTW, where did you serve as a ship's engineer? Just curious - I've been in facilities operations and maintenance since 2003 and have crossed paths with many former maritime engineers. Never new or thought of that career path when I was coming up. It would have have been a good fit for me.
John,
It was my pleasure to do so. I got to where I am with the help of a lot wonderful people. Some of them write here. Now that you know where they are, you have fewer excuses to not take care of them. My coach as 18 points because there is a point at the connection of the relay lever and the intermediate rod. I also now have one on each knuckle so the wheel bearings can get greased without tearing it apart. Unlike the picture you found. (It exists in the manual too. Look at 0-15 or 9-1) There maybe doubles at the bogie pins. If your coach is a 75 or later, that is a good mod to do.
As a much younger person, I worked the east coast as unlicensed engine, and a coastal pilot. Then I went to a trade school at Ft. Schuyler and got a license (and a degree) so people would finally listen to me. When I finally got the papers in hand, that was when Viet Nam was winding down and there were no open berths at all on the coast. So, I had had nothing like a vacation for 6 years at that point. I went to my bother's in South Carolina for a visit, and them came to Michigan to visit my sister. My bother in law suggested that if ships are what I do, I could do that here.
To that I said - RIGHT (read sarcasm)
He was right. More than that they were hurting for open license engineers. The ships were museum pieces, but ships none the less. So, I did that a lot (on and off) for the next seven years.
We ships engineers are a strange bunch. You get to be one only if you A: Get recommended by chief engineer somewhere (you worked for him), and B: Pass a three day long written test on the technology of western man including anything that might ever show up on a ship. So, you get out in the rest of the world and get to marvel at the specialization some stick them selves with.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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