Joe McCool

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@bilgerat711 2 күн бұрын

Hi love your channel, I have an old fishing boat here in New Zealand, (Picton's Northern Star is my Channel) She has I believe a Gardiner 6LXB that has probably done as many miles as it would take to circumnavigate the globe-lovely old engine and I am sorting through few issues including a $30,000 rebuild of the reduction and gear-box last year. I am a handy-man only, know very little about engines-diesels, learning as I go, the reason I started my channel is that people would probably be quite entertained by my naivety and other issues I encounter...The current issue is I believe the electrics are 24 volt, new batteries across the house and starter-bank as well, I noticed parasitic draw on the house-bank which led to me testing the starter-bank and then the alternator after watching your video, It seems the engine-alternator is charging only sufficiently to keep the two 12volt batteries in the 24-volt starter system at 12.75 volts and then little to nothing crossing over into the house-bank set-up which is dropping to 23.7 volts, I got into the engine room with the volt-meter yesterday and checked while the engine was running in idle and at 600rpm and found a maximum voltage off the rear of the alternator of 15.6-something to 15.9-something volts, Would I be correct in thinking this should be at least 24 volts plus generating off the alternator to recharge the starter bank then top up the house-bank, etc at the moment it seems only sufficient to keep the level up to 24.7 volts in the starter-bank I can send a photograph of the alternator if that would help, I believe from your video a C% model. I am wondering whether I need to pull off the alternator and send it away to be serviced, or whether I am missing something here, is it only supposed to charge at around 15.9 volts, sufficient to charge a 12 volt battery? Would value your opinion

@DieselSix6 2 күн бұрын

As a diesel mechanic, I would like to say as a word of warning, NEVER start a diesel engine with no coolant in the block, even if it’s only running for 20 seconds. A run of more than 5 seconds can cause serious damage to the head and tops of the cylinders, I have seen this first hand.

@Modernnannenginemarineengine 3 күн бұрын

lol. That old Coach engine sound or Bin lorry’s. lol Everyone talks about. GERMAN This and GERMAN that. Truth is we Built incredible modular engines. And simple . Just like the Roman aqueducts Bridges and general Architecture it lasts. Modern stuff says. Ooh it lasted 60’000k miles. Amazing. With basic maintenance a Gardener Marine engine will last Hundred years. Of continuous use ( without over stress and with decent maintenance oil diesel filters etc. will last the equivalent of 6 million miles.

@jedtrewin7083 5 күн бұрын

Brilliantly explained

@croisieresdeloise-t1i 6 күн бұрын

Hello. Mr. MCOOL, your channel is very, very interesting. I come to you, I have a boat with two Gartner 6 LXB engines. One of which I have a problem with the speed when it is loaded, it does not take more than 800 rpm. On the other hand, when empty, it climbs in speed. Could you guide me on this kind of problem, cordially and thank you.

@Modernnannenginemarineengine 10 күн бұрын

Hello Mr Mcool. RIP your Boy. . It seems like you don’t Run a channel anymore. . Been waiting for further Gardener engines Land or sea .. my connection with these Was working as a diesel fitter for a laundry van / Bread van . Servicing company. We worked on the old 3penny bit cabs with the Straight 6. Or the 4. Old diesels. . The 6 cylinder used to throw rods. The 4 cyl never broke these old engines. We’re used just like the Engines yoyr working on. Old ATKINSONS ET. MANY COVERTED INTO canal boats and trawlers. Every Suffolk Coastal lugger had old gardener or Denis Atkinson Perkins engine. Run for ever . Post some more old man please

@eddiecleaver5376 12 күн бұрын

Fantastic, thank you for the video

@oceanbreeze45 12 күн бұрын

love the video Joe, in the process of buying a converted MFV with a 6L3, I hope to never get into a "hanlin" but will for sure remember the term, keep up the great work

@matthewdickson7838 17 күн бұрын

Great video Joe happy new year to you all 👍👍

@tomredman5411 25 күн бұрын

I love how modest you are about your knowledge ,I'm sure you've forgotten more than we know 😂, I'm absolutely looking at an expert right here with a world of knowledge .I watch your posts as a relaxation exercise. ThanksTom..

@peterrear2864 27 күн бұрын

Used to use an awful lot of ba threaded screws and nuts

@booomer180 27 күн бұрын

Thank you Joe. I am now an expert on B.A. 😊

@richardspalding3622 27 күн бұрын

That was interesting especially regarding being able to retap a rung off screw/bolt Happy New Year to you also

@tonywright8294 27 күн бұрын

Ring a thread ,is that an Irish saying ?

@tangentgardner 27 күн бұрын

Ah well spotted. That should have been "wring" of course.

@keithhayman8959 27 күн бұрын

Thank you Jo . I will rember that when i work on my 3 l w .

@oml81mm 28 күн бұрын

I will never forget that 0BA has a pitch of 1mm

@Crabneedspony 28 күн бұрын

0BA was the size of the rack cover nuts on the Gardner engine, only time I ever used the 0BA

@tonywatson1412 28 күн бұрын

Older electrical back boxes . Are BA.. Newer stuff metric...4 BA , i think ! So many are caught out replacing new sockets...etc. . And wonder why new screw is not going in right.../ always keep a few in a box

@MervynPartin 29 күн бұрын

I used BA screws a lot when I started model engineering in the 1960s, and my father gave me a boxed set of Triangle Brand taps and dies which lasted me about 40 years (Sheffield manufacturer). I later changed to completely to ISO Metric (M1.6 to M12) for all my projects, although I still keep a selection of prehistoric taps and dies (BA, BSF, BSW, UNF, UNC) just in case something odd crops up.

@paulp96275 29 күн бұрын

An old one from a mentor of mine Man made it man can fix it but when the devil has played God help us My favourite hate rust corrosion what ever it’s a pig of a job and the owner wanted it fixing yesterday I’ve now got to that age where I now say no thanks and walk away polity good luck great vids stay safe 👍🇬🇧

@wullyjohnjockhughmccrory660 Ай бұрын

I came across these a lot in old old steel conduit fittings securing lights to terminal boxs boss would give a mighty telling off to anyone that lost them because nothing modern really fitted

@spamhead Ай бұрын

Happy New Year. BA, the first Metric British thread. 0BA is 6mm.

@jozefbubez6116 Ай бұрын

BA screws? They have been a lifetime favourite with me but that said, they lean heavily on a set of Swiss clock and watch threads. The diameters come out in sensible numbers in millimetres and wierd ones in inches. Keep up the good work!

@glynluff2595 Ай бұрын

The point of BA screws is that they use a Swiss designed thread which has a male/female format. When you get down to 6 BA the advance return on on one revolution is a known number of microns. The male/female format means unlike other threads they will not move when relaxed. So if used as a calibration screw on electric or electronic equipment they can be left when correct. Their thread rate is 471/2 degrees whereas Whitworth is 55 with a rounded edge. However, in WWII UNC and UNF were devised because while the Americans liked the Whit sizing the 55 round edge could not be mass produced by rolling. Consequently UN formats had 60 degree sharp edge format as with Metric. Post war with Britain exporting to the USA as tooling for war use was already in UN format it was retained by the motor industry. That is the rough history of threads as I have unravelled over the years working my way through industry from which I am now long retired!

@gavinbroad1743 27 күн бұрын

Except Land Rover, who were still using Whitworth, BSF and a few Unifieds on their Defenders as late as my 1997, all mixed up with metric, BSP,BSPT. What a mess.

@glynluff2595 27 күн бұрын

@ Ah well there is a reason for that! They were originally built out of scrap as steel was on ration and the engines were prewar and used redundant machinery from stores. Consequently it was all a bit of a fiff faff!

@gavinbroad1743 27 күн бұрын

@@glynluff2595 Agreed, aircraft ally everywhere, but there was and is no excuse to still have been doing that nearly 80 years later, ESPECIALLY with steel bolted to ally without an insulator.

@glynluff2595 26 күн бұрын

@ I agree but some things never change. Look at oil threads all bsp or not plain or tapered. That is from a different industry. Many problems come from part bin technology. Someone likes a door handle when designing. Parts engineer says Hills or some other supplier has something close. They dig out sample last used on say, Austin in seventies. With tidy over it does the job. Thread rate bsf because that was standard then. As for dissimilar metals how long do you want it to last. Today cars are made for 5 year life. Pass on at three and pass again at five. Nobody cares and that is so world wide! Why do we import Japanese vans for auto homes? They are scrapped after three years if they stay in Japan so cheap export. Remember, only the British expect their car to last fifteen years! On top of that you have purchasing officers. These are a nightmare. I had one tell me that he had saved money on my production line as he had purchased cheap screws to finish product run 2 years away. The product used terminal screws that were plated. He bought pan head with a metric thread and plain crap metal. I took him to the assembly machine pointed out the assembler would have to be redesigned for such a screw as would the sorter. It would require development time. There was an alternative. One person on a stool putting them in by hand at £10k per year. He had signed the contract without reference to me as production engineer. I shut off that part of the machine and had that part hand assembled. I think we shut the line down early. Long time ago now! That however is how industry functions. Sad isn’t it!

@gavinbroad1743 26 күн бұрын

@@glynluff2595 Mine is ex-MoD and their service life was being forever extended and is now extended again to 2030. The civvy LRs were supposed to be "the best 4x4 by far", remember that? Lots of Landies about from the Fifties and Sixties and all fighting the galvanic corrosion issue. Duralac is the saviour.

@bryanlatimer-davies1222 Ай бұрын

I used to use BA screws a lot, but then I started working for another airline

@daverdaceng Ай бұрын

Very interesting - thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!

@stuartlockwood9645 Ай бұрын

Hi Joe, happy new year mate, BA screws , nuts and bolts, a favourite whith model engineers, but used on lots of everyday items pre war ,and post war, vehicles, bikes, m,cycles, valve radios, early tv's, etc. My late father in law, was a radar tech on ww11 destroyers and had quite a collection of brass BA screws and nuts, which come in handy for me now and again, aquired no doubt as perks of the job, he, he. Thanks for the video Joe, best wishe's, Stuart Uk.

@thegreyghost-g4o Ай бұрын

Good old Zeus tables.

@ianwright3971 Ай бұрын

Often known as 'Instrument thread' back in the day due to it's use on various things lke speedometers...It's actually a metric thread form...

@nkelly.9 Ай бұрын

A salient point that your thread chart will tell you is that the BA thread angle is 55 degrees, which is the same as Whitworth. UNF and metric thread angles are 60 degrees. Fasteners are a complete subject in themselves.

@tangentgardner Ай бұрын

According to Wikipedia, it is 47.5.

@nkelly.9 Ай бұрын

@@tangentgardner I sit corrected. I am at home, away from my workshop and my thread chart, relying on memory...... I know it is a mongrel thread angle compared to modern fasteners. As Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by that much."

@tangentgardner Ай бұрын

@@nkelly.9 ;-)

@BillDavies-ej6ye Ай бұрын

@@nkelly.9 It's not a mongrel thread, it's a very rational thread. Metric, but with a logarithmic, not linear, step between adjacent sizes. Each smaller thread is 0.9 the previous diameter. Often, the odd or even series was preferred, as the difference in each step is small. It's a shame it disappeared.

@nkelly.9 Ай бұрын

@@BillDavies-ej6yeI deal with BA and BSF and NPT and BSPF and BSPT and brass/bicycle thread and metric et cetera, et cetera all day with my work. It is same same but different. It's not a mongrel thread, it's a bastard thread. That's probably why Mr McCool made this "look out" video.

@1ethanb Ай бұрын

onya! mr cool!

@evanjones2539 Ай бұрын

Standard dart stems are 2BA

@Old_Peepar Ай бұрын

I still have my full set of BA spanner’s and sockets also whitworth spanner’s from working on Gardners. 👍 Happy new year to you Joe.

@carlwilson1772 Ай бұрын

Interesting film. I have a lot of BA screws and bolts in my workshop. I was an aircraft technician in the RAF. I worked on the Nimrod aircraft. We used to say that you could dismantle the entire aircraft with two spanners. 2BA and 1/4BSF. Love BA. 47.5 degree thread angle. Whats not to love.

@VincesEngines Ай бұрын

Interesting video Joe as far I know BA screws have a metric pitch.

@RuthNewstead Ай бұрын

All our hire boats had Perspex windows taped to 2ba so you din not have to drill out replacements in the 60s 🤠

@torpedo2030 Ай бұрын

Happy New Year Joe!! I love watching your videos. Thinking about looking at a yacht over here across the pond that has 2 Gardner 8xlb engines.

@frankblack1481 Ай бұрын

Speaking of threads… Engine designer Keith Duckworth (the ‘worth’ in ‘Cosworth’) was asked why he didn’t design a bespoke thread form for his racing engines. Paraphrasing his response, he said he didn’t have to because “the perfect thread already exists - it’s Whitworth”

@neilsimone7691 Ай бұрын

happy new year joe

@austinmetro6317 Ай бұрын

Good one. Happy New Year 😊

@vincecollis266 Ай бұрын

Happy new Year

@superseven7947 Ай бұрын

Good info! I remember supplying many 2 and 4 BA screws to engineers.

@MrCrabbing Ай бұрын

Good to see you Joe.

@zeusapollo8688 Ай бұрын

Stay warm and thanks

@rickymherbert2899 Ай бұрын

Happy New Year Joe, to you and your family, looking forward to more interesting Gardner content in 2025.

@fixitmakeit Ай бұрын

I used to help with maintenance on a retired light ship in cardiff bay, there were 3 of these engines running generators . always reliable and easy to start by hand.

@lautburns4829 Ай бұрын

So nice I watched it twice!👍

@pinoydt Ай бұрын

Nice video sir

@antoinecabrera8086 Ай бұрын

Nice but i cannot understand most his words😮😮😅😅😅😅

@paulshawp Ай бұрын

Thank earlier question answered

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