[John Rogers]

There was a great point made there about "shipping preservative or oil" and I remember when a couple mechanics in #2 engine room on the USS Enterprise reassembled a sea water cooling pump with new bearings and did NOT grease the new parts. The pump ran about 10 minutes before it seized and ended up ruining the shaft as the inner bearing spun! We had two of those pumps in each reactor plant and no more spare parts so we sweated bullets while off the coast of Vietnam until Ingersoll Rand could get us a pair of shafts and several sets of bearings! Fortunately the case was not hurt, not sure why, guess the outer race was nice and tight?