I have witnessed the reversing buckets get ripped off when done a speed.
The DDC 2 stroke design requires the blower immediately to scavenge (blow out) the cylinders on startup and to run. While starting and until under...
I did something stupid long ago. Sprayed OFF/ON onto a pile of green bronze sea cocks. I had to run out of the ER and turn the blowers on. Several...
I lost ya on this. I can assume your thinking the engine is quickly dropping rpm and the turbo is still delivering some pressure. This would be...
Your higher ticket captains have access to these big Sims. The light captain and req boater does not. That's where I took the wrong turn on some...
I understand and thank you.
So, O B, your talking about the real big sims like the airplanes, rotors, tanks and ships. Very much unlike the yacht sim you can run on your home...
I was typing aweigh on an other thread and some ideas came up. Inter-cooling / after-cooling was my thoughts; I have always been a fan of the...
RER I'm sure I have seen 8V71TAs in boats. Just can not get my brain cells in sync to offer exact examples. It has been a while. I do remember,...
I remember DDC called there 8.2 (POS) a fuel pincher. Never noticed the term squeezer before.
I did learn something. I was incorrect about TTA, There is such a thing. Still trying to figure it out, at first looks like a fuel economy or...
Found an old PDF.
Yep, a .COM.AU site. Low temp solder. They seem to have a large variety of these things. Some where (long ago) I remember reading something...
Low temp solder or still required an iron? Think I can make out the part number from the pic. I'll try to look it up.
Exactly.
For you old tin drivers, I used to be an engineer for DEC. Our PDPs (computers) used to control those flight sims at many places. I managed the...
In good spirit my friend. Pushing our 58 x 18 Bert without thrusters in any marina with a smile has taken some time to master. Past experience...
Nothing beats a good (cheap) rum after a perfect landing. See #4 above. Cheers to us all. :)
Just looked the AP70 up. Looks cool. Enjoy, rc
I was spoiled to the ole Robertsons stuff. When the Simrad AP stuff came available, It turned out to be good stuff also. I locked onto a AP25/26...
