propeller-shaftin

Updated: May 2, 2025

"I know half the condenser-tubes are started; and the propeller-shaftin' 's God knows how far out of the true, and we'll need a new air-pump, an' the main-steam leaks like a sieve, and there's worse each way I look; but paint's like clothes to a man, 'an ours is near all gone."

Rudyard Kipling - The Day's Work - Part 01