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  • Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
    I'm sure Rusty will let you know but when I was with him during an inspection she looked very very good inside. I'm sure electrical is working fine since our HORNET was retired in 1970 and when we got her we started to run some systems. Pumps, ventilation, lights, radar, bomb elevators, aircraft elevators, escalator and anchor windlass all worked. Some things needed rebuilding, some needed thousands of gallons of hydraulic fluids but the electrical never failed us.
    *If you were running the real radars then you "should" have needed treated water as well. Some of the older WWII era radar sets were water cooled. Water that had to be treated first so it didnt leave deposites that would later rot holes in the cooling tubes.
    Last edited by Dreadnought; 19 Apr 13,, 01:54.
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    • @ this time 24 years ago we lost 47 brave men , please remember thier sacrifice

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      • Originally posted by blackzz28 View Post
        @ this time 24 years ago we lost 47 brave men , please remember thier sacrifice
        This morning we are having a special memorial cermony aboard the ship. I cannot attend because i'm watching over my wife who had back surgery yesterday.
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        • Originally posted by Dreadnought View Post
          *If you were running the real radars then you "should" have needed treated water as well. Some of the older WWII era radar sets were water cooled. Water that had to be treated first so it didnt leave deposites that would later rot holes in the cooling tubes.
          Of course I meant spin the radars on their mounts. Now having been through all the radar rooms I have found only one power supply (wave generation) that actually has a water cooled hook up and it is on the O8 Level.

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          • Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
            Of course I meant spin the radars on their mounts. Now having been through all the radar rooms I have found only one power supply (wave generation) that actually has a water cooled hook up and it is on the O8 Level.
            Are your power supplies still running vacuum tubes? Modern electronics use demineralized water to cool the units and the pump rooms use chill water to cool the demineralized water. The SLQ 32 antennas have demineralized water plus glycol cooling.

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            • Originally posted by Ytlas View Post
              Are your power supplies still running vacuum tubes? Modern electronics use demineralized water to cool the units and the pump rooms use chill water to cool the demineralized water. The SLQ 32 antennas have demineralized water plus glycol cooling.
              Lots of our old equipment dealing with radars and comm have tubes. Those systems have been disabled by the electrician. The motors needed to run the radars are ordinary electric motors same as the elevators, escalator, and all hanger/division doors. Below is one water cooled item and I believe O4 would have a few more.
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              • Asked around on the ship today about our wheel and how we came to learn where it was. We knew that our scoreboard was removed so it could be sent to Pensacola where it hangs. No one knew how the wheel ended up at Lemoore Naval Air Station. We were tipped off, by someone in Bremerton, that Lemoore had our wheel. Told they denied it at first until Bremerton helped out. At that point they admitted they had it but weren't going to give it back. Well, as we know, they eventually saw the light.

                Rusty, whoever has your wheel they maybe no more likely than Lemoore to say so. If it is on display somewhere then hopefully someone could tip you off as Bremerton did for us. Hopefully that since if hidden away it could be a long time.

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                • Saw this on Facebook, slight Iowa adjustment in her berth.

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                  • Kudos to the Iowa crew for a well executed move.:Dancing-Banana:
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                    • Didn't know where to stick this. Quick mention, looks like Counting Cars is at the Iowa tonight, July 15th

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                      • Drone view of the Iowa, music is annoying.

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                        • Cool video! Music made no sense though. Reminded me of Star Wars.
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                          • The Iowa is certainly appearing on TV a lot lately. I watched the last half of the season opener of "Face Off" where aspiring make-up artists create fantasy critters with human models and are judged by some professional make-up artists. At the end of the episode was a trailer for an upcoming episode of "Face Off" showing the shows' hostess on the port 03 level aft Tomahawk deck. That shot was also apparently a drone as it zoomed away to show the entire ship.

                            On "The Last Ship", it was interesting to see Russian riflemen being shot down on the superstructure of (supposedly) a reactivated Kirov class Cruiser. But those twin 5"/38 mounts were a dead give-away it was the starboard side of the Iowa. I found that quite ironic. In a previous episode the crew of the American Arleigh Burke class Destroyer remarked that all the Kirov class Cruisers were mothballed in the 1990's. The irony is that it was the appearance of the USS Iowa and her three sisters coming back to life that drove the Kirov's into the ghost fleet.
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                            • Not all the Kirov's were decommissioned, Pyotr Velikiy was finally completed and entered service in 1998 and is still in service. The Admiral Nakhimov (ex Kalinin) is in the process of being reactivated.

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                              • Originally posted by Tom24 View Post
                                Not all the Kirov's were decommissioned, Pyotr Velikiy was finally completed and entered service in 1998 and is still in service. The Admiral Nakhimov (ex Kalinin) is in the process of being reactivated.
                                I guess the Russians don't want to waste all those Nuclear Fuel pellets they have stockpiled for those ships. But it makes sense. Once they started that program to build those ships and the funding was available and saved, it does provide jobs and keeps the Russian Navy up to somewhat modern standards.

                                Though Nuclear may not be the way to go with a missile Cruiser. Just looking over the first photos of a Kirov with some of my NAVSEA counterparts we noted that one 5"/38 common in all those launch tubes up forward could blow that ship to smitherings -- including the reactor.

                                Hmmm. Maybe a 5-incher would cause us to be a tad too close. A 16" Hi-Cap would be much better. Or a Harpoon at a much greater distance. A Tomahawk might be considered overkill but it would work just as well.

                                Just get upwind from the mushroom cloud.
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