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 cylinder and deck plates just in time for class on Saturday. But first:
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July 5, 2009
2009 Week 27 in Review
June 28, 2009
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 the very stuck air-start valve, and 2) put the very heavy cylinder head back onto [...]
June 21, 2009
2009 Week 25 in Review
This June is a very busy month for Old Tacoma Marine Inc. Right after last week’s great Diesel Engine Theory class, I got back on an airplane for Illinois.
Back to Quincy
I got back in to Quincy and the Indian Grave Pumphouse to pick up where I left off two weeks ago: setting up the [...]
June 14, 2009
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 a bid to serve as project manager for the Lightship Rehabilitation. We assembled our project management [...]
June 7, 2009
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 satisfactory results when testing the main bearings.
Report on the MV Tuhoe
Old Tacoma Marine Inc’s intrepid [...]
June 3, 2009
Last Chance for Diesel Engine Theory ‘09
Hi Diesel Fans — we have one space left in our 2009 Diesel Engine Theory class and I know that one of you wants it.
We’ll be taking apart and servicing cylinder 4 on the Arthur Foss here in Seattle, starting this Saturday the 6th of June. This is your chance to be a real diesel [...]
October 26, 2008
2008 Week 43 in review
The Duwamish, completed!
Last week I finished rebuilding the Duwamish’s air compressor, but didn’t have time to test it. This week, I ran it for a few hours while I cleaned up the engine room a bit. It worked great! Before the rebuild, it basically didn’t work at all because the air compressor’s [...]
September 28, 2008
2008 Week 39 in Review
Back to business-as-usual
This week, I’ve gotten back in the shop. I worked on cleaning up an engine control station that I picked up recently. It’s a neat find, perfect for a direct-reversing twin-screw boat. After I finish cleaning it up, I’ll post pictures and put it up on eBay – hopefully by [...]
July 6, 2008
2008 Week 27 in review
An update from the John N Cobb
We hear that NOAA has decided to tow the John N Cobb back to Seattle before decommissioning the boat. This may give the engineers and mechanics a chance to determine the problem. All of us at the shop think the vibration dampener should be the first suspect [...]
June 29, 2008
2008 Week 26 in Review
This week, Old Tacoma Marine Inc. headed east to New York to see some neat old boats and engines. First stop was Waterford, New York
Tim in Waterford
I had a very nice talk with Tim Ivory in Waterford New York, who has some interesting projects going on. He spends a lot of time rebuilding PT [...]
