Mike G wrote in
ews.com:

fall/winter of 66

Hmm...I would have been in that situation in 1969-71 a few times. Sure
keeps the chow line real short, once you figure out how to keep your tray
down with your foot while trying to stuff the sandwiches in your mouth as
they fly by...(c;

We broke a lot of those green ring Pyrex coffee cups, too!

Dave wrote in
:

I well remember the time around '70 when during a hurricane I ended up
in a corner of the wardroom with a chair on top of me.



I used to leave a plumb bob hanging from the center of the calibration lab
on USS Everglades (AD-24), hung from an overhead rafter. Permanently
painted on the rubber matting under it were circles calibrated ever 5
degrees so you could see the pitch and roll angle of the old round bottom
ship....or the list caused by shifting, moving loads at the dock.

Some just couldn't stand to watch that plumb bob while the deck they were
on rotated around it....hee hee....

I always dropped by sick bay and got a bottle of Dramamine before we went
to sea, absorbing the verbal and visual abuse from the medical and other
personnel in the process. Then, immune from sea sickness, I'd go stand in
line at sick bay eating greasy sardines in front of them if it were rough
at sea....paybacks are hell.



--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

In article ,
Chris Newport wrote:

DSK wrote:
So Larry, you were on a minesweep back when there were some in Charleston?


Larry W4CSC wrote:

oil is as bad or worse than coolant. Diesel engines can RUN AWAY
burning lube oil from the sump....and explode! Really not good. You
have to see it to believe it! Standing in the engine room of a wooden
minesweeper watching a 12-cylinder Packard diesel running away is even
more exciting....it came in through the supercharger leaking.


I am still trying to figure out the relevance of these comments to the
original question. Deutz engines are 2 stroke diesels. NO SUMP.


Really, if as you say a Deutz has no sump, where does the lubeoil
go while waiting for the oilpump to pick it up and push it thru the
main and rod bearings? 2 or 4 stroke diesels all have sumps....Dah...


Me any fool knows that.....

Me wrote in :

2 or 4 stroke diesels all have sumps....Dah...



I think the ones in the 250KW Deutz-powered gensets that powered our hangar
back in Tehran, Iran, held 24 gallons of lubeoil, as a matter of fact.

Great engines....but N-O-I-S-Y with no water jackets!

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

In article ,
Larry W4CSC wrote:

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

Actually, if you don't wake up, then it is a very bad night......


Me

Me wrote in news:Me-
:

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

Actually, if you don't wake up, then it is a very bad night......


I stole that tag, I admit. I thought it was cute and it describes some of
the guys I sail with...(c;

One of 'em came back from "cruising" Daytona Beach all bloodied up. He
fell in the wrong place...on his face...in the parking lot. He was in no
pain until we were at sea the next morning. I suggested we ring our ship's
bell to announce the nautical hours, but they told me if I made any noise
they'd throw me overboard off Ponce Inlet... His nose has healed.

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.