Delay in availability of SIEG machines from ARC

Ketan / John

Thanks for the link - I've just wasted half an hour playing with it! I'm almost tempted to order a machine from ARC just for the excitement of tracking its progress towards me. ( However workshop [over] full already so I guess I'd better not.)

Norman

No I hope everything is fine and it lands OK.

Mainly because I've just realised that some of my stuff in in this container and the next one.

Thank you JasonB, Graham, Neil and Martin W. All your comments make sense.

It is just that these shipping lines seem to have a very delicate relationship with ports of call, especially when you are in need of goods which are on board that particular vessel , and we have experienced ships divert in the past to Rotterdam at last minute, if they are about to encounter problems getting into Felixstowe. So, I am keeping my fingures crossed on this one.

Thaks again, Ketan.

...And they cost a little more than £2.00...

Great fun insn't it!. I have already been to the loo several times when she turned away from Felixstowe..

Now I give up after realising that it is just waiting for its turn to come in.

Talking about high seas, reminds me of the time serving aboard the Frigate SAS President Kruger, having above decks (Top-side) out of bounds due to gale force winds..

Talk about rock and rolling.

We where all sitting in the gangways, Officers and Ratings, backs against one bulkhead with feet stretched out against the opposite one, trying to keep us in one spot.

Don't remember what the Bridge was like, but not pleasant I'm sure. Won't even think about the galley.

Those in hammocks had the last laugh though, as anyone with a fixed bunk just gave up trying to kip.

Geoff - Can't beat the navy!

Great link Graham. thanks, Ketan.

Gray

I am well miffed as I can't quite get that crankshaft onto my lathe !!!! There goes my chance of earning a few bob on the quiet.

Martin

PS

John S, hope your bits on the ship are all OK as well.

Edited By Martin W on 09/11/2013 18:37:17

Love to see Ketan fitting a 6000HP engine to Mr Stevenson's lathe without telling him ! Teach him to moan about his £2.

Dennis

Ketan,

You might find THIS tracker less stressful.

Neil

If anyone wants to see a REALLY BIG Maersk ship, look for the Emma Maersk and her sister ship.

The engine, a turbocharged and intercooled two stroke diesel, is made in Japan, to a Wartsila design.

It produces, 102,000 horsepower at 102 rpm. If more power is required a set of coils around the prop shaft can be energised to give an additional 4.5Mw. Alternatively, the coils can be used to generate 4.5Mw of electrical power for shipboard use.

The studs holding down the Cylinder Heads are 14 feet long, there are ladder rungs set into the Main Bearing Saddles, and the crankshaft weighs 300 tons!

To give it some scale, a picture of it leaving the erecting shop, makes the truck pulling it look like a Matchbox toy in front of a big truck diesel engine!

This type of engine can be made with varying number of cylinders. the Maersk ones have fourteen, presumably in Vee formation rather than In Line.

Howard

Truly awesome statistics! 300 Ton crankshaft etc.

What I want to know is what they store the 4.5MW of electricity in, must be one helluva battery!

Oh, maybe they only use it port, with an extension cable

Ian P

Just an update for everyone. Maersk Salina docked at Felixstowe last sunday morning.

We de-stuffed the container yesterday. Fortunately the container and contents were fine.

Ketan at ARC.

Out of curiosity, how do you stuff a container? Presumably you don't use a CAD model for how to pack it, so you can't be sure how much will fit in until its full... do you have a reliable chap on the ground packing it? Does he email to let you know there's room for a bit more? (I [presume this is how CPC ended up selling off cheap Christmas meerkats.

Neil

Was my two quid in the container ?

Hi John,

No, it fell through the cracks

With great difficulty. In the old days, my dad and I used to draw out internal container dimensions on the floor and try to figure out how practical it was to 'stuff' a container using pallet trucks and forklifts, before we visited a factory at time of stuffing.

SIEG had a very good person who knew how to stuff containers. he left and went back to his village a few years ago. He used to use a similar principal of laying goods out in the warehouse before stuffing. When he left, we initially had a lot of problems with new less experienced people loading. This has improved a lot in the past year after a lot of discussion and training. Here are a few pictures of the container arriving yesterday :

Last minute holding of breath before doors opened:

Finally seeing that all is well :

As you can see, it is not packed to the brim, but still a lot of stock. I am just happy that it all came in safely.

Ketan at ARC.

Edited By Ketan Swali on 14/11/2013 20:26:25

Stuffing containors is not all that bad if the stuff is palletised and one has a weighscale in the plant, it becomes alittle harder if the machine weighs maybe 18 or 20 tons and is heavier at one end with brackets and things sticking out so it cannot be placed centrally in the containor, we used to ask every one on site for a weight and take the average but it might be a case of shipping a lot of fresh air. If the waggon had not come back after a couple of hours at least you were not over weight, I could write a book about the joys of removing and shipping extrusion presses in various parts of the world. Neville.

Well done Ketan I am pleased for you

Bob

A neat job. I assume the rounded packages down the centre are packing to keep things in place.

Enough to keep the drooling hordes of model engineers happy for a few more months

Neil