Bottle Screws/ Turning Buckles

[Peter Trodden]

Turnbuckle, Was the term the yank,s used, Bottle screw, Was our terminology Same thing done the same job Regards lads Terry.

As Terry says they are all Bottlescrews, different designs and sizes but basically a Rigging Tool. Some that were used to secure deck cargo and was exposed to the weather,you would tighten the locking nuts on the threads then give it a good greasing finishing off with a wrap-around of greasy burlap. The big permanent one on Stays and Swiffters would be well protected with canvas socks. In my last few years Offshore we were using a new type of B/screw that had a ratchet in the centre (Bottle) a very handy tool.
ttfn.Peter.

[Bob Petty]

Aint it the way, give them a language and they stuff it up.

[j.sabourn]

Never heard anyone for years at sea refer to a Senhouse Slip. Probably because of all the fancy different types to perform the same job. There must have been over the years literally thousands of people coming up with ideas to make their fortune on items to make a seafarers life easier and safer. The only one who never made a fortune was the seafarer himself. Whenever a new device was brought out it would be snatched up if it had the potential of cutting manpower somewhere along the line. Cheers John Sabourn.

[Captain Kong]

When I with Esso on the product tankers, ie.Petrol, DFO, Avgas for plane and helicopters and so on. The problem with a tank that had carried Petrol was cleaning and gas freeing. This took a long time to gas free if the tiniest amount of petrol was still there after the discharge, Gas would still be coming off it, it had to come out and be gas free and petrol free before Diesel, DFO, could be loaded. It took hours and time was money alongside.
ESSO Had a "Coin Your Ideas" Program if you invented something you got a load of money, sometimes a couple of hundred pounds.
I invented an eductor system that took away the drainings afte a discharge and so gas freeing was a lot quicker,
It was know as APE, Aspinal Patent Eductor. I gave it to ESSO, They allowed me to build it into my ship and it was successful, The times saved was fantstic. This was then built permanently into all the Products Fleet at their next dry docking,, and it was estimated over one million pounds a year was saved in delay time.

I asked for my "Coin Your Ideas" Money, and was told that ESSO expected me to come up with ideas to save the company money. I never got a penny.
Cheers Brian.