Alan Dinan Posted August 14 Posted August 14 54 minutes ago, AngrySailor said: Three exam marks in the books… 80% on both electrical and automation/ controls exams, passed maritime law comfortably but wasn’t no 80%, wrote power plant management today and it felt like a solid pass. Tomorrow… f’n THERMODYNAMICS… You’re getting closer and closer, sailor!!! 1 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted August 24 Author Posted August 24 On 8/22/2026 at 9:38 PM, Rawleigh99 said: How did you do? Passed everything but thermo lol. The whole class did poorly. There were issue with time allowance and available formula books which is dictated by transport canada not the school… I’m re-writing this week. Quote
iowaboy1965 Posted August 24 Posted August 24 52 minutes ago, AngrySailor said: Passed everything but thermo lol. The whole class did poorly. There were issue with time allowance and available formula books which is dictated by transport canada not the school… I’m re-writing this week. Good luck! 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted August 24 Author Posted August 24 The site is still broken… wonder if they’ll be able to recover things? Quote
iowaboy1965 Posted August 24 Posted August 24 1 hour ago, AngrySailor said: The site is still broken… wonder if they’ll be able to recover things? We all hope so!!!!! Quote
CIHTECH Posted August 25 Posted August 25 5 hours ago, AngrySailor said: The whole class did poorly Years ago when I took Haz-Mat class for fire dept. The day we tested, I kept sweating thru my test, while rest of the students slowly finished 1 by 1 and quietly left the classroom as instructed. I kept laboring away and finished last. Walked outside and the rest of the guys started ribbing me about being slow. I will gladly admit I'm not the smartest guy. They was talking about their test questions, I realized something was wrong because my test was far different. Turns out somehow I ended up with a Haz-mat Operations test and it should have been only the awareness test. Somehow still unknown to me I passed it....instructors still wouldn't give me an Ops certificate only the awareness cert. 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted August 25 Author Posted August 25 13 hours ago, CIHTECH said: Years ago when I took Haz-Mat class for fire dept. The day we tested, I kept sweating thru my test, while rest of the students slowly finished 1 by 1 and quietly left the classroom as instructed. I kept laboring away and finished last. Walked outside and the rest of the guys started ribbing me about being slow. I will gladly admit I'm not the smartest guy. They was talking about their test questions, I realized something was wrong because my test was far different. Turns out somehow I ended up with a Haz-mat Operations test and it should have been only the awareness test. Somehow still unknown to me I passed it....instructors still wouldn't give me an Ops certificate only the awareness cert. damn that’s tough, passed but no cert… they we probably looking at the $$$ they lost not having you take the actual course! Did that test supersede the other test? Did you at least get the cert you were there for? Quote
AngrySailor Posted August 31 Author Posted August 31 Rewriting thermo Tuesday… over 100pages doubled sided of practice problems since the last exam… 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted September 1 Author Posted September 1 Have to wait on official results but the professor had a look at my exam quickly and said it sure looks like a pass 👍🏻 4 Quote
AngrySailor Posted September 2 Author Posted September 2 Scored 80% on the retake. Graduated the program with 1st class exemptions. 11 Quote
jeeper61 Posted September 2 Posted September 2 Congratulations!! Hopefully you get some time off to celebrate 1 Quote
DT Fan Posted September 2 Posted September 2 Congratulations, hope all the hard work pays off. 1 Quote
TN Hillbilly Posted September 3 Posted September 3 Congrats, quite an impressive achievement! May it serve you well. There may be better engine builders/machinists than you, but I don't know any. 1 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted September 3 Author Posted September 3 9 hours ago, TN Hillbilly said: Congrats, quite an impressive achievement! May it serve you well. There may be better engine builders/machinists than you, but I don't know any. lol thanks and you’re definitely right 🤣 Quote
560Dennis Posted September 5 Posted September 5 Glad to know you’re progressing . Keep the determination to the best you can . 1 Quote
CRVB91 Posted September 7 Posted September 7 On 9/1/2026 at 5:22 PM, AngrySailor said: Have to wait on official results but the professor had a look at my exam quickly and said it sure looks like a pass 👍🏻 Well done! Pleased to hear it Sailor. 1 Quote
Rawleigh99 Posted September 8 Posted September 8 Great news! Congratulations! I knew you could do it! 😀 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted September 9 Author Posted September 9 Thanks everyone! Been home for a week now. Just built an engine run stand for BBC/SBC stuff, I’d post pictures but the site is still broken… sure hope they can recover everybody’s stuff…. I’ve got that 454 I sold to my friend all assembled and on the stand ready to fire up tomorrow. Just some cooling plumbing and wiring left. I’m going to try my water to water heat exchanger as cart cooling instead of a radiator and fan for now. Just hook up the hose and send it through the exchanger. I can use some fancy thermodynamics I just learned and take some temperatures to get an idea of how much heat this cooker can reject. I think it’s 50 or 60 plates, think it has ~16^2 feet of plate area. Hoping it can keep the 598 cool under load… 4 Quote
jeeper61 Posted Thursday at 12:19 PM Posted Thursday at 12:19 PM 12 hours ago, AngrySailor said: Thanks everyone! Been home for a week now. Just built an engine run stand for BBC/SBC stuff, I’d post pictures but the site is still broken… sure hope they can recover everybody’s stuff…. I’ve got that 454 I sold to my friend all assembled and on the stand ready to fire up tomorrow. Just some cooling plumbing and wiring left. I’m going to try my water to water heat exchanger as cart cooling instead of a radiator and fan for now. Just hook up the hose and send it through the exchanger. I can use some fancy thermodynamics I just learned and take some temperatures to get an idea of how much heat this cooker can reject. I think it’s 50 or 60 plates, think it has ~16^2 feet of plate area. Hoping it can keep the 598 cool under load… That will give you a chance to put your thermodynamics training to the test They putting you back to sea soon? Quote
AngrySailor Posted Thursday at 02:54 PM Author Posted Thursday at 02:54 PM 2 hours ago, jeeper61 said: That will give you a chance to put your thermodynamics training to the test They putting you back to sea soon? I have short courses left to do starting end of September until possibly end of November, then I have two more written exams at Transport Canada to write. Then I get my big ticket and back to work. So I probably won’t be back to sea until next year. Hopefully I get a couple months off and ship out in spring. I’ve been pretty much non stop since November 2025… 2 Quote
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