STACK CLEANING AND LAGGING REPAIR
Who remebers cleaning the stacks and the soot in the stacks turned into an acid that burned the piss out of your eye's and any cuts you had and the lagging that was full of asbestos. The Chicago was a great ship to be on.
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DFM =Diesel Fuel Marine
We actually used DFM, also called F76 if I recall. We could use JP5 but that was jet fuel on the carrier I served on.
I was one 2 ships during the ND conversion. In fact, the second one (USS MITSCHER DDG-35) was the only ship in the Navy that converted to ND and had to convert back to NSFO. We couldn't burn ND!!!
WHEN I WAS ON THE BLUE RIDGE (70-74), THE FIRST YEAR AND A HALF OR SO WE USED NSFO, THEN WE SWITCH TO "NAVY DISTILLATE" FUEL. JP5 AND SOME OTHER PETROL MIX. THAT CONVERSION WAS GREAT - EXTENDED OUR BOILER FIRESIDE AND WATERSIDE CLEANING HOURS.
Black Oil (NSFO) is what we used at first and than switched to JP5
JP5 was still better than dealing with the Black Oil (NSFO), which they say was better than the days of coal!
Burnerman always had that fuel (JP5)) smell & soot eyeliner!! Damn!, light;n fires was was great!! BTC(SW) Kevin W. we lit'd a lot of them!!!!! 84-88!! RK