Re-assembling Ship's Generator Engine | Pt 3 | Chief MAKOi

Over the past few days, we have managed to dismantle, inspect, measure and recondition the various parts of the generator engine.

However, something unexpected happened...

Chief MAKOi
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[SpaceCadetJesus]

Congrats to the third engineer. We see him take charge alot in these videos. He deserves special recognition.

[TheinThanHtet-ep]

I imagine as if I got on board when I saw these videos. It shows step by step sequently .Thank you!

[miketarbox]

Awesome! Thank you Chief for sharing this with us. In the US Navy, we had 16V149TI's(Stewart Stevenson/Detroit Diesel, intercooler was blanked off) that we did not overhaul. Obviously maintenance was performed, but never disassembly. Holy Hannah, I've been out since 1992 and can still remember the damn nomenclature!

[multiSamP]

Fantastic series, enjoyed every minute. Highly educational. Considering you are at sea doing this overhaul, it is quite amazing, your engineers are first rate.

[jg]

The gentleman with the glasses clearly knows his stuff. An asset to the crew.

[robertchandler]

I live in a port city in Western Australia, and this afternoon, I watched a bulk carrier come into port. I was thinking how great it is that Chief puts out these videos that explain the crew's perspective and experiences.

Being a port city, it used to be easy to spot who was crew off a ship, as they would walk around town together in a group of 5-10 people. Sadly these days, with Covid-19 security restrictions we just don't get that anymore.

So Chief, just wanted to thank you for doing an important job by giving a voice to the common merchant sailor.

[blue_jm]

What a professional crew onboard, Chief must feel 150% confident working with them.

[hamisihassan]

As a marine eng student I have learnt a lot from these brief yet very informative videos. Thanks a lot chief!

[shawnhuk]

As a native English speaking, white degenerate from Canada - I seriously have to, and continuously, applaud the ability of other cultures to work so fluently, hand and foot, standing on top of each other, like an incredibly well oiled machine. I’ve worked in many industries - manufacturing, maintenance, construction, and now running my own machine shop. I can assure you, it’s always “every man for himself. I do not possess the cognitive and emotional ability to work with another individual where both our minds are nearly connected in such a way as other cultures - much like yourself - do. Hats off…

[allistertowndrow]

Thank you Chief Makoi!
I’m not even from the shipping industry and i love watching all your videos. You do such a great job filming and describing what’s going on. I can’t wait for your videos to come out everytime!!. Everytime a video is uploaded i know you’re in some dock somewhere in the world!

Let your engine room team know they are all high standard folks!

[robertconklin]

The depth of knowledge and attention to detail required to do this work consistently well is astounding. The importance of not becoming complacent and the need for constant recurring training... wow. You and your crew are amazing thru and thru. No room for duds on board a ship. Thank you for showing this stuff Chief, love every minute.

[elcheapo]

That actually looks kind of fun...working on such a large machine with a great group of guys you get along with. well done, Chief and crew!

[thedhlguy]

Chief this was awesome very educational and well done. As I said you must have been one hell of a instructor at the academy and one hell of a good Chief. From what I have watched and Captain would be blessed to have you as a Chief. Fair winds and following Seas Chief.

[SeanBZA]

You can see there a crew who knows what to do, and also that they trust each other to do absolutely the correct thing as well. You just need to make sure the adjustable nut rounders vanish, as there should be a set of tools to do valve clearance adjust for those engines, as that is very common to need to do after the first 500 hours of running as maintenance. But very nice to see all fasteners that are critical got tightened to a torque, even though you can get to pretty close to correct with experience in just how much force to use.

[human_isomer]

Thanks for that series, it was very interesting to see how things are done on board a ship. I'd really be interested in more of that :)

[Truckngirl]

Taking us where we've never been, to see things we never imagined. Thank you! This was an excellent series. Safe travels to you and your fellow crew!

[katesback]

As I began to watch I asked myself how the chief engineer (Makoi) had the time to do the filming vs. having to work. As I continued I realized that he was letting the other engineers do the work and simply overseeing it all. I am sure this is the way people learn on the ship.

[trep]

What a great crew! You and the ships engineering crew can be proud of the good work you do.

[njjeff]

Good job guys! When I was a Mazda tech we had to adjust valves on the 626 every 30, 000 miles. I used the go/no go technique. If clearance was .010” for example you us .011” & .009” feeler gauges. It worked every single time & never a valve tap. Just had to be done on a hot engine… not cold. Customers were happy their engines were quiet.

[westtex]

Excellent series, Chief. I will be bookmarking this one, and I look forward to more like this. Congrats to you and your team on a job well done. Editing & presentation was top-notch too.