That may be a tad too modern a reference for olde crusty bastards to get. You may have to change lexicon to the days of wooden ships and iron men. Just sayin’
Me, I’m a steam recip guy and if they still had them out there I might have become an engineer in the end. There’s something about all that machinery in motion like that this is a sight to witness. Of course, being an oiler and having to measure a con-rod bearing temp with the palm of your hand with the crank spinning is a bit hard to imagine.
I always wanted to do one of the underway days on one of the old Liberty ship museums just to experience that ballet of polished steel. Gonna have to do that one day.
Somwhere in my book collection, I have the original manual for a Liberty ship engine except I am afraid there is no troubleshooting section in it. On one of those monsters, if you can’t figure out what is wrong by just looking at it, then you have no business being there.
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