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There is a paperclip icon just above where you type your messages.
Just click on it and find the photo file you want on your hard drive ---Attached FilesStop messing about - just get a Sub-driver!Comment
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More torpedo files
Now upload your own darned photos Merriman! I'm not yer mother!Attached FilesStop messing about - just get a Sub-driver!Comment
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Wow, appears to be a great design!
Definitely Not KISS enough for just anyone to build tho. (there's a Lot of solder joints)
David, you don't have to worry about many people stealing your design.
The spring-loaded one-way-rotation servo-linkage-arm is very interesting.
The ring-tube distribution-manifold appears complicated at first but it's probably one of the simplest ways to do it.
I like it!Last edited by toppack; 01-12-2009, 10:51 AM.Rick L.
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Us Dummies are eagerly waiting! :DRick L.
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I would think making the 4 small cylinder-valves would be the most difficult parts, since the internal piston and seal would need to be a very close-tolerance fit. Did you use O-ring for seal?Last edited by toppack; 01-12-2009, 02:08 PM.Rick L.
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Yes i bet they will be the fastest helicopter subs, to sink the quickest to the deep bottom never coming up:DPut your mind to it. If there's a will there's a way!Comment
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I have a lot of love for the sport and hobby for a very long time.Last edited by deepseadiver; 01-30-2009, 03:40 AM.Put your mind to it. If there's a will there's a way!Comment
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Okay, I think I have the 'full picture' on the launcher.
Do you have O-rings on the torpedos, to seal them in launch-tubes, or is that necessary?Rick L.
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Yes, a 1/16" wall, 1/16" i.d. rubber O-ring that sits in the bore of the charging/launching adapter. The O-ring girdles the 1/16 o.d. aluminum tube that has been bored out with a #92 bit to form the torpedoes filling/exhaust nozzle. Retraction of the charging/launching adapter sends the weapon on its way in 'swim out' mode.
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'swim out' mode, as in 'You need to Swim Out to retrieve them', Got it. :D
Thanks for the Info, I'm really starting to get the 'Full Picture' Now. :)
I think I can teach my dog Sheela to swim out and retrieve torpedos for me.
A few teeth marks should not hurt them much. :DLast edited by toppack; 01-12-2009, 06:02 PM.Rick L.
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No, no ... smart-ass! OK: you're talking to a retired Torpedo man's Mate. Let me explain:
There are two methods of getting the weapon out the tube, either by ejection (pneumatic or hydraulic or mechanical ram ... damn French!) or to let the weapon power its own way out -- this requires either a back-flush through the slide-valve or use of a weapon of a slightly smaller diameter than the bore of the tube to permit equalization between the front and back of the weapon as it travels the tube.
In the case of these gas weapons, what I'm pleased to call 'swim out' as the means of launching, is a bit of a misnomer: the weapon generates the gas that pneumatically squirts the weapon out the tube -- the torpedo self-propels itself out the tube like a swim out, but the high differential pressure between the front and back of the weapon within the tube is created by the gas expelled by the weapon. So, in my system (and the ground-breaking Mike Dorey system upon which my work is based) we see elements of the swim-out and ejection modes used to get the weapon into the water.
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