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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
Yeah, Ill take the day off and give em the 50 cent tour so long as OOD doesnt mind. I have been down those trunks quite a few times so far and I agree with the powder mags, Can you imagine the price of that long brass table/tables with todays recycling pay outs  Most people have no idea of what those powder mags even look like nor the scuttles or any other place in those areas. Lots and lots of brass I often wondered how long it takes the Brass works to polish just one of them. The forward turret trunks are staright down. I have been down there a few times so far (shell decks are so slathered with grease you could literally ice skate across them in boots) |
Back when they started the reactivation overhaul on the Jersey, naturally they didn't have sailors yet to do fire watch, so they hired a contractor who brought firewatches. They didn't really train these people and I don't think these people realized how dangerous a pressurized bottle was, especially when they were going up and down the trunks to follow their welders. The fire watches knew the bottles were heavy and eventually every magazine off the trunk had a CO2 bottle stashed in it. They came in handy because there were so many people working on the ship, you could rarely get a cold soda out of the machines when they had them. We'd just take the can back to the magazine and spray it with the CO2 bottle until it was nice and cold.