COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2675
Location: New Jersey | Subject: Something for you Old Dogs
I posted this on Rontini's BBS too.
I was thinking back to my previous life as a slave...er oiler, in the enginerooms of Sirago and later as a throttleman. With all the dives and surfaces we made and all the times you lined up the engines to lite off, whether surfacing or snorkling, how many of you old snipes can remember the procedure you followed prior to 'rolling em over'.
One thing slips my mind. After kicking in the fuel racks, at what pressure did we let the back pressure build up before we opened the outboard exhaust valve?
No cheating by looking it up somewhere. Take it from the brains hard drive.
Edited by Runner485 2009-05-31 3:35 PM
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Something for you Old Dogs
Joe, can't say I ever really looked at a pressure gage. On the FM, when that sucker fired, I reached over and pulled the exhaust valve actuator, even on snorkel. |
Something for you Old Dogs
