Regarding T2 tankers

I guess I am dense? I do not have a URL for my images, they are here on my machine. I had found that Media dialog box. I tried putting C:/New/DSC_0336.jpg in that dialog box but that did not work.

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Greg

The URL needs to be someplace which is visible to the whole web -- that http thing -- not on your local hard drive (C:).  Its the picture's address to the world.

To accomplish you need to upload your pictures from your computer to one of the photo hosting servcies (Photobucket, Flikr, Yahoo, etc.)     They will assign an address which you then enter in the dialog box.  Alternatively grab the address information from a picture which is already on the web (right click picture then click on properties).   Copy that information (highlight, ctrl-C to cut, ctrl-V to paste) to the dialog

I know what a URL is. Why do you make it so easy to upload an avatar picture and so hard to illustrate what I am talking about in your forum? You use the method MOST online forums use to upload avatar pictures but then have this circa 1996 method of uploading forum pictures. Nah, I will pass. I joined this site, after finding this T2 forum thread via a Google search, because I have a lot of T2 pictures I took to share. SN recently upgraded their image size from 1024x to 1600x, while you are stuck at 550x just like in 1996. Don't want to host pictures? A few months ago I replaced a pair of 250G hard drives with one Terabyte for $89 each. Hard drive space has become very inexpensive. My first real computer, not counting Radio Shack, an IBM PC circa 1985 my monster hard drive was ten MB and cost $895.

Greg Hayden

Greg is correct about the reach rods going from deck to valve.  I didn't mean they were all one long rod, they were a series of rods.   For one thing, the deck valve wheels may not have been directly over the valve at the bottom of the tank, so needed universal joints.

As for the cargo tanks venting to the mast, if they didn't, what are the  6-8" lines that come out of the ullage tanks and head toward the catwalk?  The kit parts and pictures also show vent lines going up alongside the mast.

In the "old days" before closed systems, we did open the ullage tank tops as Greg describes when loading or discharging.  In that case the vent is right out the ullage tank top to the deck.   Maybe the other lines are to allow air to escape or enter as the oil expands or contracts with temperature change.  In that case the vent lines wouldn't have to be very big.