Did anybody watch 60 minutes tonight?

[*rayman*]

Anybody see that story on sixty minutes tonight about the korean shipping yards?

Unbelievable that they can be turning out one of those ships every 3 days...

Not a bad wage for shipyard workers either....

[galaxy xr8]

Yes I did see that, amazing stuff, Australia should take a leaf out their book in work etheic's.

[FordFan86]

I did, took me damn near 2 hours to watch it aswell :S :gren:

[turboute]

Originally Posted by *rayman*

Unbelievable that they can be turning out one of those ships every 3 days...

every 36 hrs - 1 1/2 days they produced over 200 of them in the last year.

[Heeno]

guy at work just told me about that, amazing stuff

[Sourbastard]

What had my attention was that massive crankshaft and the 30,000hp engine its attached to.

[rodderz]

How much of a crazy fool was the guy living with the grizzly bears?

Swam and played with them in alaska, only to have his mate drop off supplies and find him in bits one day, before his and his g/f's remains found in a bear later

[Phillo62]

Yeah, i watched the whole thing. What i find really interesting is how they float them. They are massive structures though. You wonder how they float sometimes. The size of the crankshaft was more than impressive i think to sourbastard.

Philthy

[DivHunter]

Originally Posted by rodderz

How much of a crazy fool was the guy living with the grizzly bears?

Swam and played with them in alaska, only to have his mate drop off supplies and find him in bits one day, before his and his g/f's remains found in a bear later

A grizzly didn't eat them, was a brown bear, but really when you are out in just a tent where things WILL eat you personally I would have a sidearm at least.

[Quadcams]

i missed it but that story about the bears was a heavy grusome story what was he thinking, a madman i say.

[Quadcams]

i missed it but my mate filled me in about that story about the bears was a heavy grusome story what was he thinking, a madman i say.

[galaxy xr8]

Originally Posted by rodderz

How much of a crazy fool was the guy living with the grizzly bears?

Swam and played with them in alaska, only to have his mate drop off supplies and find him in bits one day, before his and his g/f's remains found in a bear later

Yes he was a bit silly wasn't he.

[Dave_au]

Originally Posted by Fairmont99

A grizzly didn't eat them, was a brown bear

Correct me if Im wrong - arent they the same?

[Sourbastard]

Originally Posted by Dave_au

Correct me if Im wrong - arent they the same?

nope, there are many varieties of bear, grizzly and brown being just two.

[RED_EL_XR8]

I'm so afraid of bears , I wont even touch Bundy rum, or go to same sex night clubs.

[buickman]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

What had my attention was that massive crankshaft and the 30,000hp engine its attached to.

Mine was the way they would put to shame most modern day Australian workers.

buickman

[AUXRVIII]

How cool to be able to walk through the main bearing tunnel, anyone know if they are two bolt or the cap has another two captive studs?

[Sourbastard]

Originally Posted by buickman

Australian workers

Yeah riiiight. An australian "worker". Seen any other mythical creatures lately? Maybe a unicorn!

[XR Martin]

In WW2 the Americans were building one battleship per day....

[XRQTR]

Well to be quite honest i think that the fact that the CEO only gets about 3-4 times the average wage is a good start, that in itself would be a great motivational tool in that you wouldnt find many people complaining about how the boss gets more than he is worth.

[Dave_au]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

nope, there are many varieties of bear, grizzly and brown being just two.

Still confused - http://www.bearbiology.com/brdesc.html

Read somewhere else that Brown bears are usually more like kodiak bears living on the coast and grizzleys are brown bears further in the interior.

[Hank the Deuce]

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

In WW2 the Americans were building one battleship per day....

building or completing?

[Paull]

Originally Posted by AUXRVIII

How cool to be able to walk through the main bearing tunnel, anyone know if they are two bolt or the cap has another two captive studs?

Main bearing caps are held in typically with two bolts. Bolts of this nature are hydraulically stretched to a set pressure and then the nuts hand tightened. The same applies to the cylinder cover bolts, entablature, piston rod to palm as well as piston crown to piston rod.

With respect to size, I think the largest slow speed diesels come in at around 80,000 kilowatt, 12 - 14 cylinders at 960 mm to 980 mm bore and up to 3200 mm stroke.

Go here for the Sulzer diesels;
http://www.wartsila.com/en,shippower...4318,,1100.htm

And here for the B&W diesels;
http://www.manbw.com/engines/TwoStro...sp?model=K98MC

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

In WW2 the Americans were building one battleship per day....

Not quite. In the latter stages of WWII, the 'Liberty' class bulk ship was being produced every 42 hours. The Liberty class was basically a 3 - 5000 DWT vessel. Please do not think they were pumping out Battleships in that time. Also, the Iowa class battleship (Missouri, Wisconsin, New Jersy and Iowa) had 12 - 16 inch side plating. With that, mount three tripple turrets at 16inch.

These things took quite a long time to build and ironically, had been usurped by the the carriers by the time they were finished. Sad but true. It is only the Missouri that still exists, albeit in mothballs.

Paul

[XR Martin]

Warship I meant, not in particular the Battleship
ie Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship, Carrier, etc etc

Found some stats

107 Escort Carriers
2 Large Carriers
27 Carriers
8 Battleships
2 BattleCruisers
48 Cruisers
26 Light Cruiser
349 Destroyers
508 Destroyer Escorts
203 Submarines

Total 1280
Days at War approx 1300

That total does not include 1050 LSTs, 78263 LSI and 5777 Supply Ships

[AUXRVIII]

Originally Posted by Paull

Main bearing caps are held in typically with two bolts. Bolts of this nature are hydraulically stretched to a set pressure and then the nuts hand tightened. The same applies to the cylinder cover bolts, entablature, piston rod to palm as well as piston crown to piston rod.

With respect to size, I think the largest slow speed diesels come in at around 80,000 kilowatt, 12 - 14 cylinders at 960 mm to 980 mm bore and up to 3200 mm stroke.

Go here for the Sulzer diesels;
http://www.wartsila.com/en,shippower...4318,,1100.htm

And here for the B&W diesels;
http://www.manbw.com/engines/TwoStro...sp?model=K98MC



Not quite. In the latter stages of WWII, the 'Liberty' class bulk ship was being produced every 42 hours. The Liberty class was basically a 3 - 5000 DWT vessel. Please do not think they were pumping out Battleships in that time. Also, the Iowa class battleship (Missouri, Wisconsin, New Jersy and Iowa) had 12 - 16 inch side plating. With that, mount three tripple turrets at 16inch.

These things took quite a long time to build and ironically, had been usurped by the the carriers by the time they were finished. Sad but true. It is only the Missouri that still exists, albeit in mothballs.

Paul

Nice work, thanks.