welcome to sailing vessels seeker and springtime it's here the clover is in bloom and listen the
sound of grinder we're gonna work on hydraulics in this video really we will this time but we
got a couple other little jobs gotta finish up first so pete has joined us pete is from where
you from norfolk virginia norfolk virginia and pete has a very unique thing he owns a lighthouse
temple show lighthouse in the middle of chesapeake bay it's in the mouth of the chesapeake bay at the
entry to hampton roads harbor it's like having a boat a boat that doesn't move if it's steel
isn't it it's it's cast iron which is a really good thing yes how old is it it's a hundred
and see here five years old now you gonna live on this thing someday maybe i'd like to
there's just a hundred little jobs left to do these are just pins that'll hold this
on these are the straps that lift the tinder off the back deck
so in between big jobs like installing the rudder there which we did last time and the electronics
which we'll start pretty soon i guess try to knock out as many small jobs as i can so here's all
the parts that are starting to pile up for the electronics yeah forward scanning sonar radios
big radar a lot of money wrapped up in that but i figure it's good to be able to see in the dark
all right we've got the little tiny stuff to do there's some heat in there buddy
it does it builds up especially when it has nowhere to go cause
you're just working on that little piece but we're doing a little stuff it's great
so where i sewed a loop into this trucker strap is what this thing is
pin slides through that into the other side there and the bolt holds it in on this side so it didn't
come out all right i need some big bolts to hold it on
yeah all right
how much more we got oh there it is
all right good the the original design white house had a guttering system that went to two
cisterns in the basement but i look back and go there are seagulls everywhere and this thing's
pain and this thing's painted with lead paint oh come on that's not too bad okay i'll roll drool
i'm gonna tell you right now when i just the inside i mean this thing's about it's 100 years
old they painted it for the first 60 years of its life with lead paint on the outside
and lead paint on the inside and i went the initial walkthrough paint was peeling and chipping
off of everything to the point when you walked across the floor you felt like you're walking
across rice krispies or corn flakes right yeah and i took my 3 500 psi pressure washer with uh
with that that uh that swirl nozzle those things are bad yeah i think it's so awesome i think that
it sounds like angry hornets man but it cuts really good and it tore i mean it blew that
that lead paint off of everything dropped to the floor i had dikes set up in all the rooms like
catch all the water yeah and let it settle and that all the paint cell came back two weeks later
and vacuumed it out put it in 55-gallon drums back at the house so that when the jackasses from the
environmental people or the lighthouse people stick their people on me you just gotta show
them the girls i'm gonna say bring a spoon because you're gonna be eating a lot of this lead paint
as my buddy doug would say get bent yeah exactly i want to make sure i cut the wrench in the right
direction oh are you one of those people that actually knows that for the reason like i said
we got that we got nuclear power plants we had to have the training because they
probably used one as a hammer no all right all right ready yeah right there oh it's gorgeous
nuclear facility approved i went and got a few more valves pete works at a nuclear
power plant so he's talked me into a little bit more isolation and it sounds like a good
idea you know you can always just take a hose off put a plug in but a valve's a lot quicker
another beautiful cool spring morning and pete even set me up with a sweatshirt here
from his lighthouse thimble shoals lighthouse in chesapeake bay so let's see one of these will get
added onto that stick of pipe that valve there is a high pressure valve they can take 3000 psi but
this is just a supply line so there's hardly any pressure so we're going to swap it out to
something more economical this is just a common valve off the shelf at lowe's and when you buy
ball valves look through them to make sure they're a full bore some of them have a ball
that's much smaller than the pipe itself so you'll actually choke down the fluid as it goes through
you don't want to do that so a lot of the good stuff when you need it
easy hand yeah you might have to stay on one ring
oh yeah that's right anyway all right yeah there he goes
he's like yeah that thing is on there
you getting there starting to look more and more like a submarine down in there i don't know if we
said it yesterday but pete works in a nuclear power plant facility so he's he's he's used to
the piping but we have no paperwork to fill up yes exactly isn't that fun most definitely would you
like a stack of paperwork i can hand it to you do some crossword puzzles then put a piece of pipe in
how can you not like fittings that tighten up with a hammer that's a perfect tool okay now we
have three separate sections to the hydraulic system in here this is the first section this
supplies the hydraulic fluid from the tank to the various pumps so these two pumps down here
take off that one right there and we can shut them off if need be this comes down and tees it
goes back around that direction down the hose to that big pump that sits on the main engine
and if that hose leaks well we can shut it off too and then one more coming this direction turns the
corner and the v-mac will sit right here it has a hydraulic pump on it so it'll take its fluid from
the end of that line and if need be we can shut that one off too so we can have a problem on any
one pump and even shut off the supply to it the other two sections of the hydraulic system are the
pressure which is the lines going out supplying high pressure fluid to the various motors and
cylinders and things and then the return or the tank lines bringing it back from doing that work
back to the tank and like that motor over there it'll have a pressure line going into it to do
the work and then a tank line coming back to bring that fluid back in through another filter into the
tank and pizza working on the first piece of that and i'm going to figure out this right here this
is the return from the forward into the boat and the thing to keep in mind is the return is
not under a lot of pressure maybe 300 psi so you can filter it you can run it through schedule 40
pipe and that kind of stuff it's a high pressure line that'll go to almost 3000 psi so it needs the
big fittings and you'll see us doing this which is a 3000 psi fitting on a return line you don't
have to have that but when you've got the part that's what you use and it came with salvage
schedule 40 is stuff you get from lowe's and home depot that's just fine for the return lines
like a tuning fork
if i keep turning it'll go it's that piece to tighten up too
and then we'll just go a whole nother turn around okay all right to everybody out there i know it
doesn't look like much but there's definitely three days of hard work getting all this in here
and the lines going on down we even got the ones at the barry back there put some tees
in there and we ran underneath the floor board so we have an auxiliary connection down there
these are back in place with lots of changes to them but here's all you really need to know
remember the three pieces of this the supply from the tank out to all the pumps two pumps there
one pump there one pump down around the corner that way and then for the pump there'll be a
high pressure hose that comes back out and all of our high pressure hoses run through
check valves so fluid can flow up from either of those two pumps through these check valves
and into the system but if those pumps aren't running there's no way the fluid to go back
down to any of these pumps there's three check valves here because there's one two three pumps
and there's another check valve around the corner over there see that thing's standing up there so
fluid goes down through that from the v-mac pump which will sit in this area here the whole machine
so everything gets supplied that one's over there because there's a t there because the line needs
to go on across and feed that motor that drives that pump over there and the last thing we got
to do is once you drive a pump you got to return that fluid back to the tank so there's a tank line
he's pulling out today but i'm getting every last minute until the ride shows up
that is the return and so see it comes from the rear and from the front
so we got to tie it into this thing down here and we're also going to put it here because
this is the high pressure that's the return to tank we got to put a uh relief valve here that
when the system reaches its max pressure it'll open up and allow the fluid to go
down into the return to tank and it ends up going into here and it gets filtered through the wicks
filter before it returns to the tank and there's lots of fittings and short pieces of pipe all gets
cut and threaded so we got a lot of work done i really appreciate it i'm gonna come see you in
your lighthouse you know that right most certainly anchor off and we'll have a great old time yeah
and i'm looking forward to getting a picture with both the seeker and the lighthouse together that'd
be cool so a lot more to do on this we'll have more videos until then what you make today get
out in your shop do something incredible we want to see it send us the photo bye
so
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