David,
In looking at some of the pictures of the SAS SD it clearly shows a air hose manifold mounted on the outside of the rear end cap used to route the tubing out of the end cap and forward to the manifold on top of the ballast tank.
Needless to say, that's a very good idea as it prevents kinking in the rubber tubing used to route air from the snorkel into the rear end cap to the LBP pump. Yet, I did not receive a manifold in my 3.5" 1/72 Skipjack SAS SD assembly. Was this just an oversight or has the manifold been dropped from the parts list? I can route the tubing forward but only if I take care not to cause a small radius in the tubing which leads to kinks.
Dan
In looking at some of the pictures of the SAS SD it clearly shows a air hose manifold mounted on the outside of the rear end cap used to route the tubing out of the end cap and forward to the manifold on top of the ballast tank.
Needless to say, that's a very good idea as it prevents kinking in the rubber tubing used to route air from the snorkel into the rear end cap to the LBP pump. Yet, I did not receive a manifold in my 3.5" 1/72 Skipjack SAS SD assembly. Was this just an oversight or has the manifold been dropped from the parts list? I can route the tubing forward but only if I take care not to cause a small radius in the tubing which leads to kinks.
Dan
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