Right now the rain shower and wind gust is so strong that I can’t even open the engine room hatch to go in quickly and close it again. Wind today is typically around 15 KN, but guys reach 22 – 23 KN.<\/p>\n
In this weather, it would be nice and cozy in the cabin, reading and writing, sorting out pictures and deleting what’s not needed. Even working on the new mini homepage with the new blog and the new tracking would be something that I could do.<\/p>\n
Since days I’m working in the engine room with the hatch closed because of rain and with a headlamp on the final setup of the generator. Work is progressing.<\/p>\n
A days before the identification of some of the many cables in the main cable harness was my concerns. After having identified the cables, added labels, and talking care of a few spots with traces of chafing, I had to solve the next puzzle “How was the cable harness placed in the genset?” I had also Paul, the electrician looking at it. He saw a bent on the harness, which matches the generator side but still he did not have the solution for the part going around the diesel engine. While I was sitting beside my beloved genset contemplating on how the harness goes around the diesel engine, I got the idea that there could be a kind of duct between the diesel engine and the smaller part of the air intake resonator. I removed the resonator part and indeed there was a short duct. However the duct was not long enough for the harness passing the flywheel safely. It was just unprotected above the fast rotating flywheel. An extremely poor construction! The discovery of the channel under the air intake resonator gave me the idea to look for pictures I took last year when I had to replace the manifold. And “hurray” there was one picture where I got the confirmation that the cable harness went around the diesel engine that way. To be honest, I was scared! How can a cable harness just be fully unprotected in this position. I need a protection!<\/p>\n
The first idea was using a cable conduit. I took a part of the conduit removed from the thrusters and kept for any possible purpose in the future. To make it short I could build an additional protection for the harness. Getting the harness in position still was tricky, but I got it in the right. I also used a cable tie to secure it close to the coolant outlet of manifold which gets less than 80 degC, most likely even less than 60 degC because of the already seawater cooled coolant comes there out of the manifold.<\/p>\n
“Done!” I told myself and tackled the next thing.<\/p>\n
While placing the cable harness, I saw that John missed one nut holding the manifold on to the engine block. When I touched this threaded rod I felt it is broken. “You don’t want to know the words I used”. It broke because the engine was moved at the repair shed by someone not carefully enough and this threaded rod got bent. John bent it straight and it broke when the manifold was attached. You can imagine how happy I was knowing there is the broken part of a threaded rod inside the engine block. I removed the manifold and stared for a moment at the broken part inside the engine block. Will I be able to get this out? I was quite worried. Having no other choice, I prepared the drill out. Very carefully I drilled a hole to insert in a next step a screw extractor. But then I became lucky. When the left cutting drill (Thanks Terry for getting me one a while ago.) was 10 mm inside the broken thread came out just with the slowly left rotating drill. Gosh, was I happy!!!<\/p>\n
Diesel-John gave me on the phone an address where I could get an M6 threaded rod. A call and Sue from Wangharei Marine Service sent me one by courier. Had to buy 1 m and cut myself.<\/p>\n
Today I assembled the manifold and reconnect the seawater and coolant hoses again.<\/p>\n
Problems most often never come alone.<\/p>\n
While preparing the generator side of the enclosure, it turned out that the ground connection cable from the generator became too short. Paul, the electrician, who I asked for a repair, did it in way which shortened it and it became too short. Another poor design by the manufacturer for using such short cable. Fortunately, despite a very heavy raining period, Paul came by and will make a new one for the next day.<\/p>\n
We had a cup of coffee and a good talk until the rain got less.<\/p>\n
Skype – the last peace of Microsoft SW will be removed from my PC soon. I used Skype always to make phonecalls, especially long distance calls whenever I had internet connection. It was a great feature of the original Skype with pay-as-you-go subtracted from a credit which was reloaded automatically from my credit card. I paid when I made calls and the credit was kept there for when I needed it.<\/p>\n
Now all Skype users will be moved into Microsoft Teams where monthly payments are required to make phone calls. The old lady pay-as-you-go feature is gone. Beside this Microsoft just takes the money I still have in my account. So I did again “America first” – and first I looked for a non-American VoIP provider and softphone provider. In Linux Mint forum I got the hint for linphone, a French company and as VoIP provider I found a small German company. In the next days I’ll open the account and install the SW. I’ll publish details when all is running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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