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Old 26-October-2007, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by captain swoop View Post
Thats the kind of thing my Dad used to look after for a living. Until he retired he was a Marine Cgief Engineer. He started on Steam in the 50s and finshed his days on big Diesel plant. He was the comissioning Engineer on a couple of big Tankers built in Japanese yards for British clients in the early 70s.
That must have been interesting work.

Being around LARGE machinery is sort of exciting. I worked in a steel mill for a while when I was younger and being next to and watching 50,000 HP electric motors "roll" the steel ingots was cool. The BOF was also "thrilling" to watch. Hard to explain.
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