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Oh,oh,oh excited squeel. Propellers! They look great even without the dunce caps.
The third, and I hope, final answer to the forward sonar dome. This one is thin brass sheet beaten into submission and stuck to the front. I still have to refine the edges but it certainly looks a lot better.
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That sonar window is beautiful. Please share with us riff-raff how you did it.
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Just curious, what is the sonar unit in the sail? It would appear that it rotates. I think I remember reading that our sets had to be “steered” as well. It is just interesting considering the multitude of different sonar arrays on & around the bow.Dead men tell no tales...Comment
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It was an old practice to physically steer the receiving/transmitting 'beam' using a one or two axis turntable/gimble; the entire array moved. Nowadays the beam is formed mechanically (an armature) or electronically by selecting elements (transducers) of a fixed array for listening and/or transmitting.
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Impressed a thin sheet of brass over the nose to get the right shape; cut it to size; turned it over and scribed the back with a file; turned it the right way over and stuck it down. Turned out better than I thought it would and will probably look a lot better once I feather the edge around it and clean that up some more. More work on the sail today.👍 1Comment
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Impressed a thin sheet of brass over the nose to get the right shape; cut it to size; turned it over and scribed the back with a file; turned it the right way over and stuck it down. Turned out better than I thought it would and will probably look a lot better once I feather the edge around it and clean that up some more. More work on the sail today.
If so, what was the surface you embossed over? And what's the gauge of the foil we see here?
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Thanks Mate. That's a good shot. David: I mean scribed. Its .005" brass sheet. I used a bluntish file point to scribe the lines on the back side of the brass. What you see on the reverse is the pushed out scribe lines. I just laid the brass on a cutting matt so that the scribing didn't go too deep.👍 1Comment
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Thanks Mate. That's a good shot. David: I mean scribed. Its .005" brass sheet. I used a bluntish file point to scribe the lines on the back side of the brass. What you see on the reverse is the pushed out scribe lines. I just laid the brass on a cutting matt so that the scribing didn't go too deep.
Anything else I can do to help out with this project, Scott?
I'll have the SD's (mine and yours) worked out within two weeks of getting the hull -- need the hull to work out the topside displacement so I can plug that into the SD ballast tank design. I'm going with a two-motor 2.5" Lexan cylinder -- using mostly GATO SD parts.
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NOVEMBER has been on my bucket-list since I first saw the thing in a (then) classified submarine ID booklet that one of the WEBSTER's navaguessers left on the chart-table unattended. I was standing watch at the BCP at the time and to break up the soul-crushing boredom of a patrol mid-watch, the OD had the messenger grab it and pass it around till everyone got an eye-full. Called it 'training'.
Forty-five years later and now that the cat's out of the bag (thank you Russian former crew and fan boys), we can have a credible looking model of this beast. I thank Scott for letting me contribute to this project.
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