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Old 4th September 2021, 09:21
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Greetings E.von Hoegh and welcome to SH. Bon voyage.
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Old 4th September 2021, 09:53
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Welcome aboard the happy ship SH.
I am sure you will find something to inspire your interests..
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Old 4th September 2021, 12:05
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Indeed welcome Mr. v Hoegh. Especially as you post first on this thread.

You should take E-S's condemnation of the large diesel with a pinch of salt - the common kind which has, due to his attachment to all things boiler-feed, left him traumetised (I am not sure if he signed off praising or cursing B&W - hot fog's his game).
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Ah the Adirondacks, Upstate as you say.
The Memsahib and myself have been to New York many times but never North of Metropolitan Museum of Art or East of JFK.
You must tell us where your interest in big oily beasts came from and the combined brainpower of Shipping History will devise a course of counselling. By the way does Hillary Clinton live nearby?
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Welcome to this 'high quality' joke thread.
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No lamp post?
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Old 4th September 2021, 14:46
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It’s USA - They substitute fire hydrants
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Old 4th September 2021, 14:59
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Old 4th September 2021, 16:49
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Thank you gentlemen for the cordial welcome.
I'm interested in all sorts of oddball stuff. I wear a wind-up wristwatch, that could be a clue.
An engine big enough to have multi-story walkways, what's not to like? I've worked on quite a lot of "obsolete" technology, from 100 year old water turbines to prewar (WWI) engines to hollow state electronics to clocks and watches to flintlock firearms.... maybe I'll make my own groan-o-meter.

I've no idea where Ms Clinton lives. If I knew, I'd likely try to forget.


Thank you again for the welcome, I thought this was as good a place as any to introduce myself.
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Old 4th September 2021, 17:25
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Oh - I forgot to mention.
I have a ca. 1840 Parkinson & Frodsham marine chronometer, in good running order (although the temperature compensation is off, of course) Also a WWII vintage Hamilton marine chronometer which I keep running as a local time standard, set to this precise longitude.
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Thank you. I fear I might be a relatively junior member, though. I'm 60, I get the impression most members are older than me?
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Ah the Adirondacks, Upstate as you say.
The Memsahib and myself have been to New York many times but never North of Metropolitan Museum of Art or East of JFK.
You must tell us where your interest in big oily beasts came from and the combined brainpower of Shipping History will devise a course of counselling. By the way does Hillary Clinton live nearby?



Big oily beasts? it could be genetic & therefore not my responsibility. Deutsche, Schweizer- Deutsche, Irish and Scots. Mess eh?
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Old 4th September 2021, 18:27
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One who anoraks along the same lines as myself.

A Seiko QC 6MS ticks GMT in my play room with a Radio Room dial GMT repeater in the Kitchen with some Ship's time repeaters too. A Citizen TXS-56 with Ships time repeaters operational but awaits erection somewhere inconspicuous WRT my Sister-in-law. Three electrically reset gravity escapement timepieces all keeping GMT with one further to erect and put to work. If I wear a watch it will be one of three pocket watches each of a different level of posh to suit the suit. I also have my eye's open for a proper chronometer all I have is a Kelvin Hughes quartz job.

Recently I have noted a number of interesting Meggers and my collection of these is growing. A couple of AVO's (de rigeuer of course) and one or two nuclear radiation detectors add to the mix. The collection in my black museum is, of course, static as I am no longer allowed to play with ships.

This is rounded up with a working set of Evershed and Vignoles military engineroom telegraphs - needs tarting up - and two engine room 'ends' of a later model (will work as a pair but not kosher).

The above, of course, precludes a wife but it may surprise you to know I do have some friends. I fear keeping to solar time accurate to 4.3.0 W might stretch those bonds of friendship further than I have already stretched them by my habit of keeping to GMT (we are some 16 minutes later) when they are keeping BST.

Think how much more there could be to mark the development of your nascent eccentricity by the time you are 70 (an anniversary I passed earlier this year).
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Old 4th September 2021, 18:39
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I just bought, from a junk shop, a mirror scale Simpson 260. Four USD. Clean battery compartment, too!


I've been using a Fluke 8024 since 1983. It's on it's second LCD display, Fluke won't service it any more.


That Simpson will outlive me.


And that Kelvin-Hughes is nothing to sneeze at.
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I had a modern Fluke insulation resistance meter but it was so little used its battery was flat enough that it's Eprom forgot what model it was so I dumped it in favour of a windie-windie one which started me off in that direction.

Simpson - another excellent meter.

I do have a nondescript high impedance digital multimeter but need that feature even more rarely. I always preach that one's arsenal should always include a moving coil meter, not only because one can catch a twitch from the corner of one's eye but because it will have a lower impedance less likely to lead one astray when looking for voltages in basically low impedance plant. I note Fluke have a meter with a voltage range with low impedance.

(I was forgetting the three wooden cased reflection galvanometers and the Wheatstone bridge and proper CRT 'scope).
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Most ex marine engineers are big oily beasts 60 or more years old!!
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59 on the 13th.! Not so "big" as I was, way back when I would manhandle Sulzer 9RND90 injectors for a change out in Yokohama! Still can't get the oil out of my underpants (maybe time to buy some new ones?).

Adirondacks = Catamount! I was a counsellor at a camp in West Stockbridge, very close to "the Line" for three summers in the late seventies.

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Old 5th September 2021, 00:30
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59 on the 13th.! Not so "big" as I was, way back when I would manhandle Sulzer 9RND90 injectors for a change out in Yokohama! Still can't get the oil out of my underpants (maybe time to buy some new ones?).

Adirondacks = Catamount! I was a counsellor at a camp in West Stockbridge, very close to "the Line" for three summers in the late seventies.

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Thank you,Sir.


Catamounts aka panthers, aka mountain lions. Yes, they are here. A friend has a photo of one, clear and unmistakeable, in his front yard.
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Catamount was a ski run in winter and had a FANTASTIC rail toboggan in summer. It was great. Tanglewood, Pittsfield (for purchases), Stockbridge (Norman Rockwell), Salem, Tanglewood, even the truckstop where I bought a fantastic, lined, denim jacket with courdoruy collar. Many great memories.
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When I logged in this morning I was stunned to find 14 Unread Messages in my Inbox. Our new best friend has generated more traffic in a weekend than the Institute of Old Coggers. Happy days.
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It’s USA - They substitute fire hydrants
Do all fire hydrants come with a dancing Red Adair?
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When a lion gets on a bus, which seat does it sit in?


Whichever flocking one it wants!!!


Just made this up for daughter #1 who really, really, wants to go on a safari.

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Old 5th September 2021, 20:07
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Two guys walk into a bar. First guy sez "I'll have an H20!
Second guy sez "Ill have an H20 too! Second guy takes a swig and dies.

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A chemist decided to moonlight as a comedian. He got no reaction.
That's about the worst I can do, without research & study.
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