Bob Crantz wrote:
Lebanon 1976! During the Civil War there. I ran the Hagen Control board on D
type boilers!


Wasn't it really nice of Uncle Sam to let you get a good head start in
an up-and-coming hi-tech field?


BTW all the Hagan boards I ever worked on could run themselves, once you
got the air flow transmitters working right. It usually took blowing
soot out of the sensing legs.

DSK

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Bob Crantz wrote:
Lebanon 1976! During the Civil War there. I ran the Hagen Control board
on D
type boilers!


Wasn't it really nice of Uncle Sam to let you get a good head start in
an up-and-coming hi-tech field?


Especially when those steam valves had to be opened by hand against the
electric motor drive.




BTW all the Hagan boards I ever worked on could run themselves, once you
got the air flow transmitters working right. It usually took blowing
soot out of the sensing legs.

DSK

Bob Crantz wrote:
Especially when those steam valves had to be opened by hand against the
electric motor drive.


Is this a test? Compressed air, chief.

DSK

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Bob Crantz wrote:
Especially when those steam valves had to be opened by hand against the
electric motor drive.


Is this a test? Compressed air, chief.

Did those things open with compressed air? I thought it was electric motors.
I was not a BT. I remember the air vent between the two boilers that you
could sit under. At least the engine room had AC in the control room.

Do you think they still have the same OBA's?


DSK

Bob Crantz wrote:
Did those things open with compressed air? I thought it was electric motors.
I was not a BT.

But at least your heart's in the right place.

Actually, a lot of people over in the boiler room weren't BTs either
regardless of what it said on their shirt.

.... I remember the air vent between the two boilers that you
could sit under.

A lifesaver, especially in the Persian Gulf. A friend of mine used to
bring a sheet from bunk and make himself a little air lock under vent.

... At least the engine room had AC in the control room.

Do you think they still have the same OBA's?


Last time I was on a Navy ship, a little over ten years ago, they did.
In fact I recognized the serial numbers on some of the canisters.

DSK