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03-10-2010, 08:51 PM
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Marine Cable
Climbing the inside of a smoke stack from the engine room to the top past all the terrible insulation to the top in the heat of summer on the OHIO River. I miss that. Has anyone else had the opportunity to wire a seagoing vessel? The Coast Guard was always at your heels checking your work. Okay, I really don't miss it but would not give up the experience for the world. Any marine cable pullers out there?
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03-10-2010, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by RIVETER
Climbing the inside of a smoke stack from the engine room to the top past all the terrible insulation to the top in the heat of summer on the OHIO River. I miss that. Has anyone else had the opportunity to wire a seagoing vessel? The Coast Guard was always at your heels checking your work. Okay, I really don't miss it but would not give up the experience for the world. Any marine cable pullers out there?
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I miss it a lot. I built yachts for 7 1/2 years, and would love to get back on the water one day. I loved the people, the experiences........and the weekend sea trials!!! 
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03-10-2010, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BCSparkyGirl
I miss it a lot. I built yachts for 7 1/2 years, and would love to get back on the water one day. I loved the people, the experiences........and the weekend sea trials!!! |
I mostly did tow boats, and occasionally a barge being converted to something else like a grain elevator. It was sent to New Orleans. I did love the river though.
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03-10-2010, 09:18 PM
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Clay Cockcroft
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Does an aircraft carrier count. I worked as a maintenance electrician at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum. USS Yorktown. Didn't actually wire it, but all the onboard wiring was original except for the exit/emergency lighting and fire alarm system. Great Job. Best I've ever had. Except for the pay.
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03-10-2010, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by professor poptart
Does an aircraft carrier count. I worked as a maintenance electrician at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum. USS Yorktown. Didn't actually wire it, but all the onboard wiring was original except for the exit/emergency lighting and fire alarm system. Great Job. Best I've ever had. Except for the pay.
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If it floats...it counts. Did you ever get into the bilge area or notice all of the packing glands from bulkhead to bulkhead? I actually worked with a guy who said that is the way he was going to do his basement...all exposed, brackets and all.
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03-10-2010, 09:32 PM
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I did some offshore smoke , fire , and gas detection when I was in Texas
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03-10-2010, 09:36 PM
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I did some offshore smoke , fire , and gas detection when I was in Texas
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I've never been on a off shore oil well. Closest I came was to CHEVRON ISLAND . What method of wiring did they use, cable, conduit, probably explosion-proof?
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03-10-2010, 09:44 PM
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I (we-company)do almost all the vessels around here.
Tugs,ferries,research and Coast guard.
Whole mass. coast.
All the fire alarms and suppression (CO2),extinguishers and stuff.
I enjoy it. In the spring. Winters blow!!  too cold.
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03-10-2010, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by leland
I (we-company)do almost all the vessels around here.
Tugs,ferries,research and Coast guard.
Whole mass. coast.
All the fire alarms and suppression (CO2),extinguishers and stuff.
I enjoy it. In the spring. Winters blow!! too cold. |
Being in the belly of those things, on the water, in the dead of winter really does blow. It was always colder than the outside.
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03-10-2010, 10:10 PM
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They are all in port when I'm on board.
What really blows- is lifting those 200#-300# co2 tanks over the 8" steel plates to keep them in the rack!!! Then putting them back. 
(CO2 tanks must be weighed every inspection)
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03-10-2010, 10:11 PM
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The ones I worked on were: crews quarters EMT commercial wiring.
Process area explosion proof heavy duty petrochemical type wiring.
Now this as back in the summer of 83
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03-10-2010, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Lone Crapshooter
The ones I worked on were: crews quarters EMT commercial wiring.
Process area explosion proof heavy duty petrochemical type wiring.
Now this as back in the summer of 83
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Wow, that's been a while ago. That year I was helping to remove the equipment for the FORD LTD and install the equipment for the Bronco and Ranger. We're old.
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03-11-2010, 04:22 AM
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Clay Cockcroft
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Originally Posted by RIVETER
If it floats...it counts. Did you ever get into the bilge area or notice all of the packing glands from bulkhead to bulkhead? I actually worked with a guy who said that is the way he was going to do his basement...all exposed, brackets and all.
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No to the bilge area. Yes to the packing glands. Any time we installed new cable we would use the packing glands at the bulkheads. I was told we had to to maintain fire rating. They were kind of a pain.
The hardest thing I had to get used to was the ungrounded system. Both wires of a 120 volt system were fused and each read anywhere from 50 to 55 volts to ground. And there were fuse boxes everywhere.
And by the way, the Yorktown isn't floating anymore. It's sitting on the bottom.
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"Since the warehouse was not wired for electricity, no cause for the fire could be determined."
From a 1940's era news article.
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03-11-2010, 06:38 AM
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Like Professor Poptart, I too worked on aircraft carriers for 13 years. I've been all over those things, from inside the bilge tanks to the top of the mast pole. Now I do electrical engineering for the maintenance of the cranes that build those massive symbols of freedom!
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03-11-2010, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by professor poptart
And by the way, the Yorktown isn't floating anymore. It's sitting on the bottom.
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Are you talking about the original Yorktown that the Japanese sunk or the 2nd Yorktown CV-10?
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03-11-2010, 04:04 PM
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Clay Cockcroft
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Maybe I should have been a little clearer since both are sitting on the bottom. Didn't think about that when I posted!
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"Since the warehouse was not wired for electricity, no cause for the fire could be determined."
From a 1940's era news article.
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03-12-2010, 07:24 AM
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Maybe I should have been a little clearer since both are sitting on the bottom. Didn't think about that when I posted!
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I didn't have time to look it up yesterday morning, but the USS Yorktown CV-10 is still in Patriots Port, according to their website.
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