Recent content by Bilgediver

The fact that there are other faults with the panel suggests to me that the supply to the panel itself has failed. This could be a loose connection or fuse in the supply to the ignition switch or at the switch.

I suspect it is an electric repeater where a signal from the main gyro compass drives a stepper motor in the repeater in possibly 1/2. degree Stepps. That is possibly a 3 or 4 pin connecter . There would be one on each bridge wing as well as a steering compass at the helm. Some times the...

Not even an Android phone with an AA. Road map? :)

Yes and following the cleaning with the file carefully lubricate with a Copper Slip type grease which is available from Halfords . ONLY APPLY TO CONTACT PARTS. It is conductive.

A copper washer is not only NOT REQUIRERED in a copper sleeve but using g one can upset the atomisation in the cylinder due to the injector holes sitting too high in the head.

You do not say why you want to replace the sleeves. Did you inadvertently shift one when removing the injectors. To make life easier in ghe future always coat your injectors with a generous layer of copperslip. They will then be easy to remove. .

Did you lhappen eave the cooling water running thruogh the engine when it was stopped.if ashore.? You may have suffered backlog via an open exhaust valve from the exhaust elbow. Whe shor only run the cooling water while the engine is running. There is no need to panic . Just get the...

As well as opening at the correct pressure do they snap shut as you operate the lever slowly and then crack again without any dribble in between, This is important and may not show problems if you only pump quickly A long slow pump stroke and they should crack reputedly and not continuously .

All sorts of things can give problems.vWe have stiffest that row in the river Forth. One team recently went to one of the legs of the Forth Bridge which is four columns of steel on roun masonry basses. His intention was to draw a four leaf cover on Strava . This is a tracking app used by...

Nothing to do with The Red Duster. More likely due to less workload as les control over operation than American registration. Even millionaires count the pennies! There are a number of colonies with a defaced ensign and there used to be someone in London who set up marine departments for some...

I agree with this Vyv . The biggest killer of anchor chain is not so much surface corrosion but the interlink wear . This is the places where the links wear against each other. The links can appear to be fine but worn half way through. The interlink wear is more usual on harbour moorings and I...

Injectors should be free to lift out as the seal is achieved using copper washers or in the case of some Volvo's the base of the copper sleeve. If the injector was loose in its pocket with a loose clamp and there was no sound of escaping air then yes maybe an internal problem. Remove the...

If you remember those old RDF sets as well as the long wave beacon frequency had the medium wave receiver also. This was not for entertainment. In the olden days if doing a great circle Japan to Panama in the winter when no sky and no stars for 21 days then how do you think we found our way...

The best way of checking and every boater should have one is to test the circuit using a test lamp and preferably at least 36 Watts. These are easily made by soldering leads on a bulb of around 30 Watts at least.

The degassing coils on old ships had nothing to do with the compass. They were fitted to reduce the chance of a ship triggering a magnetic mine. They had their own generator and only operated where mines might be expected. Compass deviation is taken care of by the two steel balls you see on...