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Battleship New Jersey Turbo Generators / Electrical
« on: November 12, 2020, 10:11:29 am »
Interesting content on this channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleshipNewJersey/videos




Seems to be a total geek and nerd just like us what he does !


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Re: Battleship New Jersey Turbo Generators / Electrical
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2020, 05:06:22 pm »
Loved the video on the casualty power, thanks for posting.  :clap:

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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2020, 09:00:14 pm »
The Radiation Laboratory volume on servomechanisms uses the rotation control for the main gun turrets on that class of ship as an example of power gain in a servo:  from the power the sailor applies to the control wheel to the huge motor geared to the turret rotation.
 

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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2020, 04:37:04 pm »
I'd love to own a BS or ACC, but then you can't drive them by yourself, but then I could always use it as a house boat, in-fact rent out some rooms, then get those people to join the crew.
 

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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2020, 05:32:45 pm »
The 2012 movie “Battleship” has a silly plot about joint naval maneuvers being interrupted by space aliens, but has a wonderful sequence near the end where US Navy veterans are recruited to revive the USS Missouri to fight back;  I particularly liked the bit where they use appropriate kindling to restart the boilers.
 

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Re: Battleship New Jersey Turbo Generators / Electrical
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2020, 12:28:03 am »


New video on the machine shop and electrical / motor repair room.


 

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« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2020, 03:17:03 am »
I took this picture of the Missouri and New Jersey firing simultaneous 9 gun broadsides from the fan tail of Carrier Enterprise in 1989. Also toured the Missouri years later. The mechanical analog firing computers are beyond amazing works of engineering.
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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2020, 04:08:24 am »
I took this picture of the Missouri and New Jersey firing simultaneous 9 gun broadsides from the fan tail of Carrier Enterprise in 1989. Also toured the Missouri years later. The mechanical analog firing computers are beyond amazing works of engineering.

The rangefinder and radar that go with that are pretty impressive when you consider their age.  Apparently the whole system was so good that they didn't update it during the Reagan-era refurbishment.
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Re: Battleship New Jersey Turbo Generators / Electrical
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2020, 05:54:50 am »

Battleship Turbo Generators

Oh dear. At 1:10 "You don't want that steam out in the air, so you keep it in an armored box" he says, pointing to the gray metal casing of the generator and its cooling air ducts. Ignoring the white insulated steam pipes and turbine casing in the foreground.

Curator he may be, but he doesn't know the difference between a turbine and a generator.

(And I'm speaking as someone who spent a year working as an electrician on a refit of two Australian navy ships, the Tobruk and Manoora.)

Still, an interesting channel.
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