Chris's Build of Battleship Ohio Engine

[cnr6400]

  Sounds like a great trip! Great pics of the ship. Look forward to the videos. 

[crueby]

Sounds like a great trip! Great pics of the ship. Look forward to the videos. 

Great time there, I highly recommend a trip to it. They are expecting next cruise in May, before they go into the shipyard for their every-5-year inspections, may not have a fall cruise next year, back to full schedule the year after.

[crueby]

Last bits getting done before silver soldering up the IP cylinder. The top end of the steam chest base needs to be flush with the top of the cylinder, so easiest way to fill in that gap was to mill off the flange edge to two flats

and screw on some filler pieces. These will be milled flush after soldering

Ready for soldering - the brackets for the horizontal stay rods have been staked with a sharp punch, other parts have temp brass screws to hold them in place.

[Kim]

Looks like an awesome trip, Chris!  Glad you got to visit the ship and share the pics with us 

Was it hard to mess up so many of those little hole's you'd drilled and tapped?   

Kim

[crueby]

Looks like an awesome trip, Chris!  Glad you got to visit the ship and share the pics with us 

Was it hard to mess up so many of those little hole's you'd drilled and tapped?   

Kim

I had not tapped all of them, just enough to get it on the faceplate, so only was cutting through the holes. This whole sequence is  being partly figured out as I go!  Just got a round of the soldering done, had to switch to my biggest torch partway in  since it wasn't  getting  hot enough. The brass is still so thick that its like doing a big boiler. Will get it cleaned up and see how well the solder flowed, may need another round on the brackets.


 

[Michael S.]

You had a nice weekend.
I would have liked to have been there.
We are looking forward to more pictures or a video.

Greetings Michael

[crueby]

Got some of the video clips picked out and put together into one video:


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUnAOgTPTU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUnAOgTPTU</a>

Towards the end it shows the reversing engine in use as we were coming back into the pier. Its a single cylinder engine with a large flywheel that doubles as a hand wheel, so they can move it by hand to fine tune the position plus start it if it had stopped on top or bottom center. The reverse engine turns a big gear with a rod back to the reverse links. Also, at one spot you can see a couple of the engineers reaching into the crank web as it goes around to test temperature and oiling! At the very end is a quick clip of the steering engine - was not able to stay there long, the captain and chief engineer were a bit stressed out thinking something was wrong with it (there was not) so we had to leave. It was not in a compartment normally open to visitors. All in all an amazing day!


And the shop elves didn't seem too excited about the t-shirt that I brought back for them. Some muttering about size... 

 

[ozzie46]

Great stuff as always.
Ron

[Kim]

Great video, Chris! Thanks for sharing.

Guess you'll just have to wear the t-shirt then, eh? 

Kim

[wagnmkr]

Elves ... ya just can't please 'em.  Lock them in the coal bunker for a while and they will come around.

[Don1966]

That’s awesome Dog…….


Don

[Krypto]

That was an awesome video!

Very good timing as right now I'm in the middle of reading "Freedom's Forge" which talks about the USA ramping-up for wartime production and the Liberty Ships are featured prominently in the text. It's amazing how quickly they were able to assemble those ships back in the day.

[crueby]

That was an awesome video!

Very good timing as right now I'm in the middle of reading "Freedom's Forge" which talks about the USA ramping-up for wartime production and the Liberty Ships are featured prominently in the text. It's amazing how quickly they were able to assemble those ships back in the day.

Very true, they didn't even have the shipyards when they started, and got the building going in a matter of months. Quite amazing.

[cnr6400]

  I got $1.25 that says Bucket Bob is wearing a red and green pinstripe jacket tomorrow, cut out of the condensor graphic on yer shirt. 

Really enjoyed the video! 

[crueby]

I got $1.25 that says Bucket Bob is wearing a red and green pinstripe jacket tomorrow, cut out of the condensor graphic on yer shirt. 

Really enjoyed the video! 

You just HAD to give him that idea...       Now I have to go back for another cruise next year and get another shirt!