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RE: I'm sold on synthetics

Posted by Fred J (A) on August 24, 2010 at 22:17:56

In Reply to: RE: I'm sold on synthetics posted by l1945@sbcglobal.net on August 24, 2010 at 10:37:11:

gary

The Diesel boat was an old WWII Fleet boat it had however gone though a number of refits and yard periods where they installed a snorkel mast and then a whole bunch of high tech electronics, sonar etc. so we had considerably less room than they had in WWII, that was the end of American Diesel boats the nukes got all the money, so were did everything by hand begged borrowed and stole parts and tools, the GM Detroit engines were train engines, but during the War Fairbanks Morse couldn't build their magnificent pancake engines fast enough so the adapted the 278a for submarine and DE use after those boats were refitted for snorkel it was too much strain so anytime we ran a flank bell for any amount of time we'd fry / crack cyl. heads, it was brutal work those heads weighed over 200 lbs each and are torqued
down to 750 ft/lbs when you worked outboard you were right up against the pressure hull so you couldn't use breaker bars, re-building the mechanical
fuel injectors was really tricky extremely close tolerances involving a lot of lapping, and yes the bearings went south regularly ergo the hand scraping to fit, the Fairbanks boats being an engineman was a total dickout those guys just sat around reading shitkickers and crotch novels and took reading, in it's infinite wisdom the Navy decided to simplify the supply system so guess which engine boats they gave our allies, believe it or not the Fairbanks boats we got stuck with the GM's
we worked like animals, but after a couple of years I could do an infinite amount of one armed pull ups either arm.
We also had 3000 lb air compressors, lube oil pumps, and distillation
(stills) all of which were WWII vintage all requiring constant work.

I've had a number of friends who raced motorcycles, I did some desert racing, myself got pretty good at tearing down and rebuilding and tuning two stokes, my friends road raced and that was often 4 stroke 4 cyl double or quad ovc etc. we cryoed the cranks, Cam's etc. and that was the real cryogenic thing not the farce ridiculous faux bullshit from the audiophool world.
I primarily work on vintage tables Thorens Lenco, Bogen and Rek o Kut and I've done a few Garrard's those BTW have butter soft phosphor bronze bearings where the synthetic oil is a God send.

Regards Ferd

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