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Oil absorbent rag in an engine

Posted: September 11, 2022, 7:26 pm
by shipwrecked
Wonder what happens when someone of a lowest pay grade puts an oil absorbent rag into the brand new rebuilt generator on the ship you just spent 4 weeks making it happen..? You get your new to you engine rebuilt.

Dumb dumb put an oil rag inside the lube oil pump and didn't tell anyone or bother to remove it. We started it up and noticed no oil pressure at the governor which should have taken over.
Fiber bits thru the whole engine. It forces another 5 week rebuild. Main bearings showing signs of FOD.

F it. I am taking leave when I turn this ship back over to the real Engineer Officer.
I was supposed to deploy a month ago...
This was the start of this a few weeks ago


Re: Oil absorbent rag in an engine

Posted: September 23, 2022, 7:02 am
by shipwrecked
Engine is scheduled to come out again on the 3rd. everything we did in that video is happening again.

What a huge waste of money/time/manpower.

I know the report of investigation came out and cleared my crew of any wrong doing. The support detachment was identified twice as the cause of casualty and more stringent accountability of them is going into effect.

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