AngrySailor Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 Made it 2000km… arrived last night at midnight. Only had to change one alternator in the parts store parking lot yesterday near Montreal ffs… 5 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 Made it in at midnight last night. Classes at 8am-6pm they started Monday so I missed the weeks lessons. Electrical I think will be easier than the applied mechanics/physics… I’m rusty with that stuff and this is the advanced semester so I gotta bone up fast. I haven’t attended a naval arch class yet but a couple of the older guys recruited me into their group along with a young wizard… we have to design, model and build a hull then test it in a flow chamber and run all the calculations for stability hull forces. It a massive project, soundly like the model will be 130:1 scale so that’s almost 6 foot for a 750’ ship… what the heck! Also almost half the class is retaking one or more of the classes, 50% passing rate… just violate me sideways… I’m excreting a sizeable chunk of masonry right now guyz! 2 Quote
Gearclash Posted January 10 Posted January 10 Ha! Don’t jump off any bridges (ship’s bridge or otherwise) until you get to it. My wife is working on her master’s degree in nursing. She was all tweaked out about pharmacology, was sure she was going to bomb it. She passed with a low A. lol! 2 Quote
jeeper61 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1211861031046878 1 2 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 10 Author Posted January 10 1 hour ago, jeeper61 said: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1211861031046878 That poor car… it’s cool but damn, waste of a nice Chevelle! 3 Quote
jeeper61 Posted January 11 Posted January 11 46 minutes ago, AngrySailor said: That poor car… it’s cool but damn, waste of a nice Chevelle! That's likely the 1st and last time they plow with it. I guess they could take the body off and put it on one of the new frames and make a nice street car after the novelty wears off. Good luck with the classes 1 Quote
Alan Dinan Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Was a Camaro, back in the day, around here, on a Blazer frame. 3 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 11 Author Posted January 11 59 minutes ago, jeeper61 said: That's likely the 1st and last time they plow with it. I guess they could take the body off and put it on one of the new frames and make a nice street car after the novelty wears off. Good luck with the classes I mean it IS the coolest snow plow around… and thank you. I got geared up with a lap top for free courtesy of one of my classmates. He’s an older student as well and him and his wife work with a place that recycles laptops that are only a year or two old from government offices and such. Was awful nice of him. We’re going to be working together on naval architecture project also. 2 Quote
Cderuyter24 Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Just bought this 7413 original hours were the third owner gave 6k for it been offered way more but wont take it lol 4 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 11 Author Posted January 11 Turbski… nice. Bigger pump and weld up the waste gate! Quote
Cderuyter24 Posted January 12 Posted January 12 10 hours ago, AngrySailor said: Turbski… nice. Bigger pump and weld up the waste gate! I got oil coming out manifold right at the split would that be turbo seal? Quote
CIHTECH Posted January 12 Posted January 12 9 hours ago, Cderuyter24 said: I got oil coming out manifold right at the split would that be turbo seal? Most likely it is unburnt diesel fuel, mixed with exhaust soot. Presents as oil, put it under a good load and get your cylinder and water temperatures up and I bet ya it will disappear. This is cause by a combination of light load, lazy thermostat, poor atomization of injectors. Commonly called "wet stacking" in my neck of the woods. 1 Quote
Cderuyter24 Posted January 12 Posted January 12 13 hours ago, CIHTECH said: Most likely it is unburnt diesel fuel, mixed with exhaust soot. Presents as oil, put it under a good load and get your cylinder and water temperatures up and I bet ya it will disappear. This is cause by a combination of light load, lazy thermostat, poor atomization of injectors. Commonly called "wet stacking" in my neck of the woods. Thank you I'll have to wait till spring lol or find a dyno lol Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 13 Author Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Cderuyter24 said: Thank you I'll have to wait till spring lol or find a dyno lol You could pull the inlet tube off the compressor and see if there’s any oil in housing likely fairly easily but I think CIHTECH is probably right. If it hasn’t been worked it may just need the cobwebs blown out! So we have three young ladies in most of our classes and I walked in today and they were sitting all by themselves on one side of the room and all the guys together on the other… I loudly asked the guys wt heck was wrong with them, scared of girls? Having a sausage party over here? lol we all had a good laugh and them made me sit with them🤣 what’s wrong with kids these days! For naval architecture we have to design a hull and build a scale model along with all the calculations. Groups of three and one of us has to race the model in July… if it must be a group member it will probably be me cuz I’m the lightest even at 200lbs… Sheiit. If we can recruit a pilot we need someone light but retard strong. Only problem is they have to be smart enough to not spin in a circle like Moe from the three stooges at the start line… I got roped into the materials/jointery role, it’s a card board boat, 12’ long or so, carry one person. Looking at laminating transverse layers of card board to form compound curves, sealing the corrugations and wrapping the hull with non corrugated cardboard help make it as water tight as possible. Gonna be a big pain in the azz really… 3 Quote
Farmall Doctor Posted January 13 Posted January 13 2 hours ago, AngrySailor said: You could pull the inlet tube off the compressor and see if there’s any oil in housing likely fairly easily but I think CIHTECH is probably right. If it hasn’t been worked it may just need the cobwebs blown out! So we have three young ladies in most of our classes and I walked in today and they were sitting all by themselves on one side of the room and all the guys together on the other… I loudly asked the guys wt heck was wrong with them, scared of girls? Having a sausage party over here? lol we all had a good laugh and them made me sit with them🤣 what’s wrong with kids these days! For naval architecture we have to design a hull and build a scale model along with all the calculations. Groups of three and one of us has to race the model in July… if it must be a group member it will probably be me cuz I’m the lightest even at 200lbs… Sheiit. If we can recruit a pilot we need someone light but retard strong. Only problem is they have to be smart enough to not spin in a circle like Moe from the three stooges at the start line… I got roped into the materials/jointery role, it’s a card board boat, 12’ long or so, carry one person. Looking at laminating transverse layers of card board to form compound curves, sealing the corrugations and wrapping the hull with non corrugated cardboard help make it as water tight as possible. Gonna be a big pain in the azz really… Hehe…. I’m looking forward to updates. I like new learning, and always strive towards it. My younger Son wants to be a pilot, and so we joined the local aircraft association. I’m currently reading the 400 page ground school manual, and enjoying it. Owen already passed the test in Air Cadets. Sad news though, our mutual friend Chief Dana’s brother Doug passed away. He had been ill for a number of months now 3 Quote
ray54 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 A university near here has paper milk carton boat race. It started as tech and agricultural school, with the motto of "Learn by Doing". They use to produce some good engineers in aero space to the digging in the dirt kind. And a ag school that milks 100 head of cows and processes the milk. Growing all their own feed to butchering the cull cows. But in the wacko world of fruits and nuts produced in Caiforny, just barely hanging onto the students doing working concept. 😉But I do believe they won some big money for the first human powered flying machine in the last 10 years. So some real thinking and learning still happens. But suspect the combo of engineers and a dairy on site is how the milk cartons became the building material chosen. So no matter how distracting some classmates are, wishing you well in boat design and building. 2 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 13 Author Posted January 13 10 hours ago, Farmall Doctor said: Hehe…. I’m looking forward to updates. I like new learning, and always strive towards it. My younger Son wants to be a pilot, and so we joined the local aircraft association. I’m currently reading the 400 page ground school manual, and enjoying it. Owen already passed the test in Air Cadets. Sad news though, our mutual friend Chief Dana’s brother Doug passed away. He had been ill for a number of months now Best of luck to your son and sad news about Doug. Wish Dana well for me if you’re talking to him. Thanks Ray! Quote
Rawleigh99 Posted January 13 Posted January 13 21 hours ago, AngrySailor said: if it must be a group member it will probably be me cuz I’m the lightest even at 200lbs… Sheiit. If we can recruit a pilot we need someone light but retard strong. Only problem is they have to be smart enough to not spin in a circle like Moe from the three stooges at the start line… I hope the girls aren't over 200lbs too!!! LOL Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 14 Author Posted January 14 4 hours ago, Rawleigh99 said: I hope the girls aren't over 200lbs too!!! LOL I can lift the most I’ve ever been able to in my life rn… 🤣 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 14 Author Posted January 14 Electricity is fun as Sheiit. Built the board they wanted in 20 mins then helped out. Physics makes sense but the math is a beech. 4 Quote
Alan Dinan Posted January 14 Posted January 14 You obviously have lots of talents, sailor!! Sounds like you will do just fine! Good luck with the math! 1 Quote
hardtail Posted January 15 Posted January 15 We used to do a lot of tank, liquid, pumping calculations in our fluid mechanics classes and I didn't mind it, the worse was that was when metric emerged so we really had to know both systems and constantly convert back and forth, the calculus and reservoir engineering for oil and gas deposits wasn't my favorite, you got this. 1 Quote
AngrySailor Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 On 1/15/2026 at 2:01 PM, hardtail said: We used to do a lot of tank, liquid, pumping calculations in our fluid mechanics classes and I didn't mind it, the worse was that was when metric emerged so we really had to know both systems and constantly convert back and forth, the calculus and reservoir engineering for oil and gas deposits wasn't my favorite, you got this. Thanks HT, They’re hitting me with everything holy cow! Working on AC reactance/capacitance calculations rn. Fuggg haven’t seen rectangular/polar coordinate conversions in ages… calculating balanced and unbalanced wye and delta loads is the assignment this weekend. I think all the guys in the class prefer the company of gentlemen cuz I got all the girls out to some live music last night and probably “study group” tonight 😜 4 Quote
Rawleigh99 Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Sounds like you got this in more ways than one! Lol 🤣 3 Quote
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