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Originally Posted by Tim Gibbs
Many years later we had an anchor handler with four Wichmann 9AXAG 2-stroke engines that had been idling for hours and then went to full load. Same problem as above but a different result - the burning oil in the exhaust manifold on one engine turned the turbocharger into a gas turbine. It took quite a few minutes to blank off the air intakes to extinguish the fire.
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It happened on the Barber Perseus too! Sulzer 9RND90 engine. After "slow steaming", the turbo coked up and, so, when they went to FSA one of the three BIG turbos blasted off! A mate on board at the time said he was mesmerized with the tacho going off the clock and bending the pointer until the 2/E screamed at him "to take cover" [edited for people of a sensitive disposition] in case a blade "excursion" occured! As you said, the solution was to remove floor plates an slide them, slowly, into the airtake and strangle the TC.
After that, we were advised to go to full ahead for short periods during slow steaming to "blast the crap" [technical terminology!].
Rgds.
Dave