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2010 Week 8 In Review
An Update on the Lightship No. 83!!! This week, representatives of OTM Inc and Northwest Seaport met to sign the contract that names OTM Inc as the consultant for administering the federal TEA-21 grant administered by the state Department of … Continue reading
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2010 Week 7 in Review
OTM Inc started the week with another famous all-day bunch. We had artists and hippies and software geeks and rafts of boat trash, all swigging screwdrivers and champagne, eating eggs and bacon and all the hashbrowns they could tolerate. It … Continue reading
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2010 Week 4 in Review
Valve-grinding: a team effort This week, I finished cleaning all the valves for the Thea Foss. Engineer Ron ground the valves and observed that “the first one is fun and the rest of the 24 are boring,” which I definitely … Continue reading
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2009 Week 48 in Review
A lot more work on the Maris Pearl We spent a bunch of time this week cleaning and painting cleaning and painting on the Maris Pearl. Some work on the Skillful I also pulled the engine out of the little … Continue reading
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2009 Week 39 in review
We spent this week puttering in the shop, reviewing Lightship notes, and gossiping under the roll-up door – an important process for transferring important information – and playing the antique player pianos coming into the shop these days. Here’s Dan … Continue reading
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2009 Week 27 in Review
This week, we put the Arthur Foss all back together. All the parts are cleaned and many painted, the head is down, the piston is in, and the rod bearing is in, and I tightened everything down and painted the … Continue reading
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2009 Week 26 in Review
20Work continues on the Arthur Foss This week, I continued to work on the Arthur Foss‘s Washington, working with OTM’s mechanic Crystal. We started the week with two big challenges to work on 1) make a tool to drive out … Continue reading
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2009 Week 24 in Review
OTM Inc spent most of this week working on the Arthur Foss‘s Washington, but first: Update on the Lightship #83 Following our successful preparation of a Preliminary Engineering Report two years ago, Northwest Seaport has asked OTM Inc to submit … Continue reading
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2009 Week 23 in Review
Still scraping bearings OTM Inc spent most of this week scraping and fitting rod bearings for the Indian Grave Drainage Pumphouse‘s Fairbanks-Morse diesels, and making some fine adjustments to the main bearings. I did this with much relief, after getting … Continue reading
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