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A small boat stuffing box comprising an adjusting nut, a locking nut and a sleeve. On a boat having an inboard motor that turns a shaft attached to an external propeller, the shaft passes through a stuffing box, also called a "packing box" or "stern gland" in this application. The stuffing box prevents water from entering the boat's hull.
A D-ring used to secure cargo in a utility trailer (A) D-ring (shown in isometric view) (B) Weld-on pivot link; note the incorrect fillet weld call-out (bottom-right). The correct method of securing a weld-on pivot link is a [t weld] which consists of a perpendicular vee butt joint secured to the billet using a butt weld or fusion weld.
Heat exchangers on board vessels are used throughout many system. Systems that use heat exchangers include lube oil, jacket water, steam systems and main seawater. The systems are often interconnected by heat exchangers in order to remove heat generated from running equipment from the engine room.
In the mid-1990s, advances in sponson design made sponsons a tool for better handling at high speeds, and they began being added to racing boats. [ 2 ] There are essentially three types of sponsons for watercraft available on the market today – the basic block type, the hooked or winged type, and the paddle or rudder type.
Kort nozzle The towboat Dolphin I in a floating drydock on the Mississippi River in Algiers, Louisiana.. A ducted propeller, also known as a Kort nozzle, is a marine propeller fitted with a non-rotating nozzle.
The blades of the rim-driven thruster, by contrast, are mounted on an outer ring rather than a central hub. The ring constitutes the rotor of an electric motor and sits within a surrounding stator, which is also ring-shaped and creates the necessary torque. Rotor and stator are water tight and the whole unit operates submerged.
In this example, the slip rings have a brush-lifting device and a sliding contact bar, allowing the slip-rings to be short-circuited when no longer required. This can be used in starting a slip-ring induction motor, for example. A slip ring is an electromechanical device that allows the transmission of power and electrical signals from a ...
The most common type of block heater is an electric heating element in the engine block, which is connected through a power cord often routed through the vehicle's grille. Some block heaters are designed to replace one of the engine's core plugs and therefore heat the engine via the coolant. [4] Alternative methods of warming an engine include: [5]