torpedo system

[Slats]

I see David, our overlord submarine builder and Creator is making a four torpedo system for the skip jack submarine . I am looking forward in seeing it, once it's made and on Caswell, site .
Jim:)

Hey Jim,

how do you know its for the Skipjack?....4 shot system could be applied to a variety of sub platforms - the Newsletter / e-mail from Mike mentions more details soon to go on to the New Products page.

I am hoping personally it will be also available in 1/72, and I thought earlier discussions re this on another forum (like a year back or so), was that it would be produced in 1/96 and 1/72....Mike could you please indicate when you put the details up - what scales it will come in.

best

John

[deepseadiver]

Well i tried trying to metal around with a torpedo system, and i have found bad sources for the parts. The one that David Merriman, has posted those pictures of his prototype is very impressive. I would not know were to start molding little metal pieces like that and to get it to function correctly. It would take me 6 months to get it right maybe more.

I see David, our overlord submarine builder and Creator is making a four torpedo system for the skip jack submarine . I am looking forward in seeing it, once it's made and on Caswell, site . Note to Mike once the new mold are done yes i am interested in buying your skip jack with the torpedo system that's for sure.
Jim:)

[toppack]

I saw your box (About 7' tall) go out a couple of days ago. The drawings are hopefully being picked up today!

I'll be sitting at my front door with box-cutter in hand. :D LOL :D

[Kazzer]

I would, if you guys would send me some T-class parts and drawings! :D LOL :D

I saw your box (About 7' tall) go out a couple of days ago. The drawings are hopefully being picked up today!

[Slats]

Its going to be great and well worth the wait.
J

[deepseadiver]

that has a very strong blast there some good presure behind it i can see there.

[Slats]

Mike,
I do like the latest banners of the torpedo shooting across the screen and the banner stating this is coming soon.

John

[toppack]

So, get your boat working!
David,

I would, if you guys would send me some T-class parts and drawings! :D LOL :D

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

have read this post with great interest - I am please to see that I am not the only serial pest that wants this system.

Guys - I have had a go at three torpedo type systems over the years - all screaming failures with shots cooking off early, hanging in tubes, and all ridiculously overscale. Every one successful shot fired another 5 wood goof and all high consumable gas suckers too by the ridiculous overscale of the items.

One piece of advice.
WAIT

David will get this going in his own time. I have been on him for this going on three years now. Mike will tell you too the amount of times he has instructed me to shut the F up about it.

In the mean time get a sub working well - allow some space forward - rig up your sub driver with a spare channel.

There is nothing more that says amateur hour like a sub that fires a torpedo only to then porpoise along, flood, or sink like a rock.

Best
John

And that, boys and girls, is that. Well put!

I'll readdress the torpedo problem later in the year and will get a production unit up and working before 2010. So, Like John said: get your boat working!

David,

[Slats]

have read this post with great interest - I am please to see that I am not the only serial pest that wants this system.

Guys - I have had a go at three torpedo type systems over the years - all screaming failures with shots cooking off early, hanging in tubes, and all ridiculously overscale. Every one successful shot fired another 5 wood goof and all high consumable gas suckers too by the ridiculous overscale of the items.

One piece of advice.
WAIT

David will get this going in his own time. I have been on him for this going on three years now. Mike will tell you too the amount of times he has instructed me to shut the F up about it.

In the mean time get a sub working well - allow some space forward - rig up your sub driver with a spare channel.

There is nothing more that says amateur hour like a sub that fires a torpedo only to then porpoise along, flood, or sink like a rock.

Best
John

[toppack]

Okay, I knew it had to be something like that, but was not sure about the terminoligy. Thanks for the Swimming Lesson! :D

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

'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. :D

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.

David,

[toppack]

'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. :D

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

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?

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.

David,

[toppack]

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?