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2009 Week 37 in review

Business as Usual This week, we are back in the shop cleaning, reading the Local Agency Guidelines Manual for the Lightship #83 project, and working on the website some more. We’re working hard to get pages about all the known … Continue reading

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2009 Week 13 in Review

More work on the Maris Pearl This week, OTM Inc started work on the Maris Pearl‘s bilge system. Not too much to report there. Update on the Lightship #83 Northwest Seaport is getting ready to start the big deck replacement … Continue reading

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2009 Week 7 in Review

Work continues on the Catalyst This week at OTM Inc, we double-checked the Catalyst‘s main caps, just to make sure they weren’t too tight. The main caps are the top half of the main bearing, and on Washington Iron Works … Continue reading

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2009 Week 5 in Review

Work continues on the Catalyst This week at OTM Inc, we cleaned all the cylinder heads and installed them on the Catalyst‘s engine. We used compressed graphite head gaskets, which is what they were running on for the past 10 … Continue reading

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2009 Week 4 in Review

Work continues on the Catalyst This week at OTM Inc, we finished fitting the rod bearings on the Catalyst and cleaned out the crankpit really well. Then, we installed pistons. On most engines, you put the pistons in through the … Continue reading

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2008 Week 52 in review

Work continues on the Catalyst This week, I finally finished up filing and sanding and polishing the Catalyst‘s crankshaft journals. I also continued fitting the main bearings in using plastigauges. The project is coming along nicely. Ever expanding the web … Continue reading

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2008 Week Two in Review

Engineer for a Day Program for High Schoolers Early this week, OTM Inc received a call requesting another Engineer for a Day session for Ballard High School. We put one on in February of last year, which was both successful … Continue reading

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