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56wrench

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One of the training films i saw way back when i was going to school as an apprentice, was an old scratched up Gray Marine training film showing the engine in a landing craft and the subject was how the governor worked. If i remember correctly lol
 

JaredV

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One of the training films i saw way back when i was going to school as an apprentice, was an old scratched up Gray Marine training film showing the engine in a landing craft and the subject was how the governor worked. If i remember correctly lol
There's a couple different films on YouTube


 

Truck Shop

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IceHole

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That was one of the things I was so disappointed about the 28 day Pacific cruise wife talked me into a few years back, could not get a tour of the engine room. Were they afraid I might steal the engine for my motorcycle?
That'd be the only reason I'd want to go on a cruise.
 

DMiller

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Gray was just a rebadged Salt Water Chevy/ Driptroit.
Dealt with a few oddities on Alton
Pool, Mil spec drive systems behind old beater Detroits, one short distance shuttle boat had Hercs but were a Military base engine, a few Cats, and amazingly three gas 1950 Buick Straight Eights(that one caught fire and sank). Buda and DD stationaries or in cranes/winch works. Bigger boats EMDs one had ALCOs and another antique had two big Baldwins, salvaged engines bought cheap. Heard of one had a Fairbanks but never saw it.
 

skyking1

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Thank you, and hello from the east coast of Scotland. :)
We visited some of that in 2009, we drove up the west as far as Fort William and then down through Pitlochry, across to Arbroath ( had the smokies ) and down across the Tay at Dundee, St. Andrews, and spent a couple of nights in Edinburgh.
We have friends in Manchester-ish that we stay with.
 

kshansen

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and amazingly three gas 1950 Buick Straight Eights(that one caught fire and sank).
That's a shame, I had a 1950 Buick with the straight eight. Even with the Dynaflow two speed "not really automatic transmission" I think it had more get up and go than the 1962 Ford with the 352 V-8 I had a couple years after. I 'm thinking that Buick was only about a 248 Cubic inch 8 although it may have been the "big" 263 cubic inch 8!
 
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