This is the converse of the philosophy we used for building experimental apparati: "If it doesn't fall apart on the floor immediately after you take your last piece of data, you spent too much time building it". We called it "ragged edgemanship".
Alan Alan Lewis "Victoria" Gulfstar 41 #160 Lying Kittery, ME K1ALL > Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:51:37 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Westerbeke Engine Trouble | > Significantamountofwater in crankcase > > To quote my brother, who is an engineer working primarily in > engineering design of vibration damping boxes for aircraft > electronics, there is an old saying: > > "You finally have to shoot the engineers and go into production". > > I imagine there is a fine line there between 'not good enough' and > 'over engineered' that is hard for them to teach execs at the Harvard > Business School. > > Ed on Angel Louise, lying Brunswick and getting stuff up to top shape. > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:25 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There should be a special place in Hell where design engineers have to live > > with their work. > > > > > > Norm > > S/V Bandersnatch > > Lying Julington Creek FL > > N30 07.68 W081 38.47 > > > > > >> Until 2004, these had only 2 lip seals and the slinger was an O ring on > > the > >> shaft. If the pump started dry, it would overheat (It burned the paint > > off > >> my cover) and destroy the impellor and seal. Also, any seal leak causes > > the > >> bearings to fail as it quickly corrodes the cage that holds the balls in > >> place. Once the bearings go bad, there is a fast flow of water sprayed > >> parallel to the shaft that enters the oil system at the pump drive gear. > > A > >> very unreliable pump! After 2004 there is a different pump with a > > ceramic > >> seal. > >> Lee Haefele > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Liveaboard mailing list > > [email protected] > > To adjust your membership settings over the web > > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > > > To search the archives > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > > > > > -- > Ed Kelly > sailing vessel ANGEL LOUISE - Catalac 12m > > Skype Cell telephone: 202-657-6357 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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