On our tour of the injun room the ladies are quite take by the bungee cord ride :chuckle: We always point out to them this is where things that whirr hum and juggle up and down are :sweat:

I notice some of the ladies have some equipment that juggles from left to right as they walk.

It was decreed some time ago that the ER was out of bounds to the lady passengers due to the secret machinery and other things located there.

How is it that ES has emerged from the dark and is swanning around with a group of ladies?

I now see that the ladies are enjoying the sights only to be seen in the Engine Room (with Tmac's specific approval apparently). Don't know what they expect to see down here as the only unusual sights that I have seen are short skirts climbing steel ladders.:o

Upskirting YM, we call it Upskirting.

Two small boys fighting in a sack….?

Flanders and Swan had a blind date with Hinge and Bracket, no pregnancies resulted.

even better when we have the fans running at full speed, it was ES who gave Marilyn Monroe the idea for the subway scene. :smoking:

Indeed, Norma Jean and me went to school together. Campbell College, where we were members of the Cinemagraphic Society. NJ persuaded the headmaster, Alan Eames (the Archbishops brother) to buy us a big fan and the rest as they say is hist.........

Oh aye and I taught James Galway to play the flute in Onward flute band. :jester:

There's so many flute players in NI that one of them had to be good.
Pity about the name, he should have changed it to James South Antrim.


As I ask at this time every trip, *Billy Boy where the hell are we*?
I don't want to go back up there to take sights, going on watch in a clean shirt is alien to me.

we are right there where that pencil cross is on the map thingy. we will be docking shortly after lunch.
The ladies seemed to enjoy the voyage. the menfolk seem pleased with our service. talking about someone with a big shifter from down below.

As an aside I think I saw one of our old shipmates, Mr McCloggie, hanging about the quay wall studying ships and drawing funnels in a wee notebook.
Billy invite him onboard for a snifter or two when we get to PORT SWETTENHAM. He will entertain us all with his banjolele.

good idea ES. Maybe your boss can join in with his Lambeg.

Tmax is not ignoring you BB, he's stone deaf from beating seven bells on that infernal drum.
Eminent psychiatrists have commented on the connection between playing of the Lambeg and the working class credentials of the drummers. Could it be a deep seated self loathing for the fact they did not go to public school and thus neither took or administered sound thrashings, sometimes called a birching. Perhaps our ambassador to the court of St Mona could comment.

As long as he keeps it politically correct as always......

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." It also allows for the distortion of truth and fact to promote political gain and rationalize all acts to further the cause of those pushing an agenda not shared by the majority

Oh well said BB!

[QUOTE=Engine Serang;42243]Tmax is not ignoring you BB, he's stone deaf from beating seven bells on that infernal drum.

Eh whatssat ? sorry I am a trifle deaf as I have jelly in one ear and custard in the other :big_tongue: Sadly the maintenance budgie won't run to proper ear defenders :smoking:

I said your new Metric/imperial shifter has arrived,

And not a diode or PLC in sight. I love being a Fitter.

Come on! You couldn't do without those these days. Anyway you can't believe that is real, it even says it's forged.

Give me back the old Imperial measurements such as inch by thick running from nothing to feck all. :curtain_call: In Harland and Bluff we worked to the fine tolerance of the "peak o' yer cap" dimensions, if the peak fitted the gap that was good enough :applause:

My metric hammer isn't as good as the old fashioned and reliable 7llb shifter :very_sad:

I had the misfortune, among many, to be educated (partly) during the changeover from imperial to metric and I now work in metric, think in imperial and talk in Eastantrim. Nobody understands me.

Setting tappets with the peak of your cap required a knack, inlet 250 thou clean rim, exhaust 500 thou greasy rim. Anything else and the engine would be clattering across Biscay.

500 thou? - That would be a Carpenter's half inch would it?

And, if you are going to get a combi-shifter then get a good one...

Been there done that, worst was leaving a Stilson wrench on the piston top :eek: The chief was NOT a happy bunny especially when we sang Lulu's big hit. "it goes boom bang a bang, boom bang a bang loud in my ear" :really_mad:

:applause::applause:

As near as damn it, depending on tolerance, although in many shipyards on the Lagan tolerance wasn't tolerated. Neither was abstinence

Slow chaps like myself assumed there was about 40 thou in 1 millimetre and then multiplied or divided as necessary. In A-Level maths this is called calculus or matrices or something complex. Ah the good old days. A white boiler suit with a wee notebook in the breast pocket sodden from sweat, engineroom boots without socks or laces, an 8 inch (50,000 mm) Bacho shifter and a yellow or orange USA safety torch which never worked and 4 hours of bliss.

Reminds me… I always used to carry a metal nail file, the butt end was exactly 15 thou and ideal to set points on car engines. The file end could be used to clean them as well.
Also handy as a screwdriver and lock pick.

sailed on a boat with a Kelvin 3&1/2 Hp petrol/paraffin . Engine originally installed in 1923 , instruction manual said adjust tappet with the thickness of a business card. Tried using feeler gauges and the engine ran rough as, used a card and she ran sweet as for many years after that, would love to have that engine now.

I was 14 years old and ran a fishing boat at weekends taking anglers out fishing. That one had a Kelvin pet/par engine. it was a reliable boat too. I used to a fiver a trip doing that. Big money back in those days.

A "British Standard" business card. None of your oul "DIN" cards in them days.

What factor does one use to convert to an Imperial Visiting card?

Not sure David but I think that snob value is involved somewhere.

just spoke to Tmac and he told me to go away (I think thats what he meant) I simply asked about Whitworth and BSF threads....must have touched a nerve methinks. Thats sure to cost me a case of black bush

And don't forget we British did not stop at BSF, oh no, we had the British Standard Cycle thread, a British Imperial screw thread standard made for bicycle and motorcycle applications.
For reasons best known to themselves the Japanese never warmed to this excellent thread and that is why they made such heavy weather of their Sunday cycle through Malaya. And the cry went out from Percival's HQ to send more drawing pins to the front line.

Swiss army file:applause:

Our plumbers are so adept at making any thread fit another (using a pipe and shifter or, for rounded-off heads, king-stilsons) that E-S has omitted several threads that the true aficionado will surely recognise:

A variety of French Round threads as well as their asymmetrical trapezoidal thread and the Czech tire valve thread for several.

(Leckie uses only Molegrips to butcher mechanical fastenings).

Good injuneers like wot I is don't bother mating threads we just weld the bloody thing together, job done, dismantling same is some other buggers problem. BSF big stupid fecker, BSW bought some at Woolworths, TPI tired, pissed and ignorant, UNC under no circumstances.

UNC, UNC?? Are you sure of the right sequence? On sea trials H&W was generally NUC.

ID 10 T problem just shown on my status monitor. Must be a problem down below.
maybe someone did something wrong. I have confidence that Tmac will soon have it sorted.
Reckon we should get underway in the morning. But to where? anyone got a favourite port they would like to visit?