Delay in availability of SIEG machines from ARC

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Ketan,

You might find THIS tracker less stressful.

Neil

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

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

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Posted by Howard Lewis on 09/11/2013 21:30:29:

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

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

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.

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

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

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Was my two quid in the container ?

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Hi John,

No, it fell through the cracks

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 14/11/2013 18:18:33:

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

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

[neville rigg 2Participant @nevillerigg2]

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.

[SpringbokParticipant @springbok]

Well done Ketan I am pleased for you

Bob

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

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

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Fascinating tale. Are there any internal threading and boring sets lurking in there?

Cheers

Rod

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 15/11/2013 20:44:07:

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

Yes, they are air bags. Credit where credit is due. The original guy (who left) who used to do the loading, and I always used to think that putting such bags in was a bad idea, because too costly, and we used to think that they would puncture easily. Both he (his name is also 'Mr.He' ) and I always used to prefer empty cardboard boxes to use as packing in between cases. After Mr.He left, loading was a bit 'crap'. There were a lot of emails and photos exchanged. Then these bags were introduced.

I and my team are really amazed at how good they are. Non have punctured so far, and they really do keep the stock well in place, especially in between large cases when they are stacked two high. On this occasion, I am happy to say that Mr.He and I were clearly proved wrong. Credit to the young lady who came up with the idea.

Ketan at ARC.

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Roderick Jenkins on 16/11/2013 08:35:58:

Fascinating tale. Are there any internal threading and boring sets lurking in there?

Cheers

Rod

Just checked. These are on a vessel which is hopefully expected to arrive Felixstowe on 21st November this year. Provided all goes well, we hope to have these available in first week of December, this year.

Ketan at ARC.

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Ketan,

Ta, you can expect an order!

Rod

[Robert Mason 1Participant @robertmason1]

There are so many shipping containers lost from ships that the air tight one’s are a shipping hazard as they usually float with the top at or just below the surface. I do wish that they would hurry up though I’ve finally persuaded the wife to buy me something descent for Christmas a milling machine anything is better than socks

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