BruceK
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Ever wondered about the (lack of) access to your stuffing boxes? Here`s a day in the early design phase.
Joe:"Hi Harvey (Halvorsen). Harvey: G`day Joe (Kong).
Harvey :"The aft ER design, any ideas Joe?"
Joe: "Let`s start with the stuffing boxes and build around them."
Harvey :" Won`t owners need access?"
Joe:" We`ll put the adjustment instructions in the Owners Manual,but let`s not make it too easy."
Harvey:"Gotcha! Starboard we put a timber plate right over it and stick the HWS on top, plumbed in so it`s near impossible to move. Let`s leave a gap between it and the genset battery box so owners can just see it dripping."
Joe: "Cool. And port side mount, screw into place the 2 battery boxes for the big 55kg batteries, right over the top of it."
Harvey: "Silly question,but how will the owners adjust them?"
Joe: Well,they could flag down a passing octopus and train it. If Paul the octopus could predict football games,teaching one to adjust stuffing box nuts should be a walk in the park. Not the blue ringed ones though,they`re fatally poisonous,and their arms are too short"
Harvey: "An octopus! Spot on,why didn`t I think of that."
BruceK (with apologies to Mr Kong and Mr Halvorsen).
Joe:"Hi Harvey (Halvorsen). Harvey: G`day Joe (Kong).
Harvey :"The aft ER design, any ideas Joe?"
Joe: "Let`s start with the stuffing boxes and build around them."
Harvey :" Won`t owners need access?"
Joe:" We`ll put the adjustment instructions in the Owners Manual,but let`s not make it too easy."
Harvey:"Gotcha! Starboard we put a timber plate right over it and stick the HWS on top, plumbed in so it`s near impossible to move. Let`s leave a gap between it and the genset battery box so owners can just see it dripping."
Joe: "Cool. And port side mount, screw into place the 2 battery boxes for the big 55kg batteries, right over the top of it."
Harvey: "Silly question,but how will the owners adjust them?"
Joe: Well,they could flag down a passing octopus and train it. If Paul the octopus could predict football games,teaching one to adjust stuffing box nuts should be a walk in the park. Not the blue ringed ones though,they`re fatally poisonous,and their arms are too short"
Harvey: "An octopus! Spot on,why didn`t I think of that."
BruceK (with apologies to Mr Kong and Mr Halvorsen).