Diesel Engine course

[ernie_madoff]

Was hoping to do a diesel engine course with sea start. However, missed the boat as they fully booked up now. Anyone done one of these couses. What did you think and anyone else do these courses who you would recommend? Thx. ernie.

 

[DAC]

RYA hold diesel courses and seem to get good feedback.

 

[dkm]

Did the 1 day course last year, well worth the investment

 

[albineer]

I found Tony Brooks's two day course useful. The next one is in Nottingham in April. Click here for info

 

[brianhumber]

Hmm,

Out of professional interest I did one of the first instructors courses when these first were introduced. Whilst nothing incorrect was in the instructors course the content was wrong IMHO and I refused out of principal to get involved any further as I did not want to teach courses with such content.

I hope over the years things have improved with practical content rather than theory as the original aim was to stop lifeboat shouts for things like filter clogging etc. Knowing theory of 4 stroke combustion in depth when the revs are falling off due to blocked filters or overheating due to seaweed in the filter situations was and always will be of no use to man nor beast.

 

[Switch]

I was trying to find an RYA Diesel Course that taught on KAD300's or similar but I couldn't find anyone...they were all using small yacht engines. Similar in principle I know, but I would have preferred to learn on something similar to what I'm using.
Anybody else found anyone?

 

[benjenbav]

I did the sea start one in November. I learned a fair bit and had a good day doing it. I spent a few quid on decent spanners afterwards!

 

[Switch]

what engine did you work on? was it a class room or your own boat??

 

[benjenbav]

Class room. They had a couple of examples and components from others. Proper sized engines though, not rubber band jobbies for sailboats.

 

[Richard10002]

I did the RYA course in 2006 and took pictures of my engine from all angles with me - the instructor "noticed" my pics, and made lots of references to them, as a comparison with the engines we were working on.... so I got a lot of info specific to my engine.

 

[Col]

Brian I understand what you mean.
The course syllabus is a bit woolly and should be tied down to a common level of course content and relevant hard parts to play with..
The only requirement is to have an engine (which doesn't need to run) so the course can be run more or less as a powerpoint slide show. It is mainly down to the instructor as to how good or bad the course is.
When I run the course I have a running engine that I can put real faults on and the students have to find & fix them. I also have a table full of parts so people can see a real piston (or whatever) and understand how it works.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Son is doing this at junior apprenticeship atm. Apparently it will be several weeks and different engine each time, pluts winterise/dewinterise. Fingers crossed for big Perkins