Somewhere on the forum I went through the dead-start routine - just cannot remember the thread name. Tried to find it last night but no luck.
However, over the time the ship's machinery has been dead, many seals/'O' rings etc would have hardened, so to run anything now without major leakages and/or dangerous situations possibly arriving would require strip-down & rebuild before attempting a start on most of the major machinery items. The 2 or 3 (cannot remember the exact number now) main engines that the Asian crew damaged, after trying to restart them after they had been stopped on HFO, will have hydrauliced fuel pumps, broken or bent camshafts, and all filters/fuel lines/injectors/fuel return lines now blocked solid. I believe they shut down 5 engines on HFO, instead of switching the fuel modules back to diesel fuel to flush the HFO out of the systems before shutdown.
Now, even the purifiers/clarifiers/pumps/controls/air start systems/start & control air compressors/etc/etc would have to be overhauled before use. Bunker HFO lines will be solid, but diesel lines & daily service tanks will be Ok if they are still holding fuel. Unless the boilers can be reactivated (after strip-down, inspection for corrosion, etc, burners & pumps overhauled, control systems proven operating correctly to prevent boiler explosion through non-purging, fans checked), they cannot hope to warm the coils in the HFO bunkers. The Lloyd's CSM sheets will have a bad dose of the measles - ie., red dots on every piece of machinery, and thus well out of class. Essentially, if you didn't want to damage something, all machinery would require internal inspection before anyone even thought about starting anything! All jacket water pipes would have to be inspected for corrosion. Coolers opened up/ S.W. systems & strainers opened up. Who would pay for all this?
Very glad non of these HFO idiots sailed on any of my jobs or the term 'keel haul' would have probably been resurrected!!
Skilly
