Marine Diesel

[bmetcalf]

Pat Manning sent me this recently. It may look familiar to @Marcus Bowden . Anyway, it can't be one-piece; I wonder how the sections are joined?

 

[greg brillus]

I'd like to see the knife edges for balancing that one........

 

[Peter Holmes]

Apparently a two stroke diesel engine, incredible.

 

[Flo]

Those things run HFO (heavy fuel oil)

 

[Peter Holmes]

is that not diesel fuel?

 

[Flo]

Diesel fuel must comply with EN 590 or sth. similar. HFO is a lot cheaper and has a lot higher sulphur content for a start. Some grades must be heated to be pumpable.
Just read Fuel Oil on Wikipedia.

 

[Peter Holmes]

Learn something everyday.

 

[timetraveller]

I used to know a Vincent man who had worked on marine diesels. The fuel was so crude that the fuel filter was wire mesh to take out gravel and sand. He used to get into the cylinders to decoke and service the tops of the pistons.

 

[vibrac]

It might be one piece I remember 50 years ago standing in a cabin in an English Electric plant looking down at their biggest lathe I said "where is the tool post", the man said "we are on it."

 

[bmetcalf]

That would be one Large billet! I don't know if you could ship it by rail. Maybe if the machine shop adjoined the steel mill or a Schnabel Car like this: