"steve", plugs are plugs, in the world of engines. anything else is everything
else, and is named such.

besides, there are no plugs of any kind on a diesel engine that might be
cleaned by a drunken longliner crew the night before sailing. none.

except, "steve", for the diesel engines in that vague universe in the spirally
part of your gauzy mind you inhabit so often.

give it up, "steve", there ain't no plugs on a diesel engine, as either term is
used by anyone having anything to do with engines.

"steve", it is *you* who claims diesels have plugs, not me.

Correct, and they do. Several types of which have been pointed out to
you by several posters. If you think they don't, that's just one more
thing you're wrong about to add to the list. Just because, in one of
your halucinations, you added "spark" to plugs in what Junger wrote
doesn't mean the rest of the world is as dumb as you are.

Steve

ARPANET, dood, ARPANET. when DOD released the internet to the general
public,
looooooooooooooooooooong ago, DOD had in place its own, more secure,
replacement.

now, about those spark plugs you claim longliners have in their Perkins
4-108
main drive engines ...

Jox, rehab is your friend. Don't you know anyone who likes you enough
for an intervention? Probably not.

Steve

JAXAshby wrote:

"steve", plugs are plugs, in the world of engines. anything else is everything
else, and is named such.

You say that after cofusing plugs with "spark" plugs. You're just as
confused as always. That 6.9 G blow to your head must be showing it's
effects. Of course, if it were a 7 G blow, you wouldn't have survived
(according to you.)

Steve

Steven Shelikoff wrote:
JAXAshby wrote:

"steve", plugs are plugs, in the world of engines. anything else is
everything
else, and is named such.


You say that after cofusing plugs with "spark" plugs. You're just as
confused as always. That 6.9 G blow to your head must be showing it's
effects. Of course, if it were a 7 G blow, you wouldn't have survived
(according to you.)

Steve

You think he's confused here ..... you should see his confusion
regarding "DR".

otn

plugs are plugs. everything else is something else.

DR means deduced reckoning, except to those people who think "dead on" means
kinda about maybe possibly close by or maybe not.

JAXAshby wrote:
plugs are plugs. everything else is something else.

DR means deduced reckoning, except to those people who think "dead on" means
kinda about maybe possibly close by or maybe not.


Wrong again and still confused I see.
DR means "dead reckoning" or maybe "deduced reckoning", or maybe "ded
reckoning".... and these meanings can be different.
For people such as yourself, brought up on needing positions within 1-2
feet, it's understandable that you would not accept anything less as
"dead on".

BTW, you should see all the "plugs" on the engines of this diesel tug I
work with, none of which has anything to do with creating a "spark".

otn

DR means "dead reckoning"

the word "dead" can not be used in the context of DR, except in ignorance.

JAXAshby wrote:
DR means "dead reckoning"


the word "dead" can not be used in the context of DR, except in ignorance.

The expert speaketh.
Could you explain why? (and as per usual, I see you pulled the statement
out of context)

otn

DR means deduced reckoning, except to those people who think "dead on" means
kinda about maybe possibly close by or maybe not.



I think somebody is taking a beginning nav course.

Two references:

From the Dictionary of Nautical Literacy, published by International Marine ( a
division of McGraw-Hill)

Dead reckoning: The process of determining the position of a vessel by tracking
course and speed for a given time.
From the phrase, "deduced reckoning", the plot is called a "DR".

According to this source, Jax is half right. The process is called "dead
reckoning", but the hypothetical plot it produces can be called a "deduced
reckoning."

Then there's another source that indicates neither side of the argument has an
absolute leg to stand on:

From "The Sailor's Illustrated Dictionary"

dead reckoning (DR): The determining of a position by course, speed, and time
elapsed, but without a fix. A DR position is shownon the chart with a half
cirlce and a dot and the time the vessel was calculated to be in the position.
With any other information included, such as wind and current, it is called an
estimated position.
The term "dead reckoning" comes from "deduced reckoning" or "ded. reckoning",
which later became "dead reckoning."

According to this source, the hypotheticaly correct term realy is ded.
reckoning, (short for deduced). Unlike an assertion that anybody who knew squat
about navigation would never say "dead reckoning", those who are exposed to the
practice on an actual basis, in the real world rather than by reading about
boating, have probably never heard the technique called anything
except "dead reckoning."

"ded" is the correct term, "dead" is not.

This is a real issue, for those who think "dead" is correct will also state
that ded reckoning is "dead bang on center", as in completely accurate, which
is a physical impossibility.

JAXAshby wrote:
"ded" is the correct term, "dead" is not.

This is a real issue, for those who think "dead" is correct will also state
that ded reckoning is "dead bang on center", as in completely accurate, which
is a physical impossibility.


As usual, you are misinformed.