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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2008, 04:48:56 PM »
The oil in the hydraulic system on the Drum is about like 30 or 40 wieght motor oil.
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2008, 05:27:40 PM »
No problem. there.  I am just covering our bases...

part of my job is to play devisl advocate. 

Right after tightwade and major pain in the Ars ;D
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2008, 07:14:07 PM »
No problem.  You're the guy that has to clean it up, if we screw it up, anyway.

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The oil in the hydraulic system on the Drum is about like 30 or 40 wieght motor oil.

What are you guys using for hydraulic fluid these days?  I was thinking that we might end up having to use skydrol, which is used in aircraft hydraulic systems.
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2008, 08:49:56 PM »
We aren't using the hydraulic system, this is oil we have drained out from some of the piping and cleaned out of the pump room bilge.
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2008, 11:09:33 AM »
I wonder if it's cosmaline or something similar?  The Navy may have put a preservative in the system to keep it from rusting.  How long was the boat in mothballs before you guys got it?
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2008, 11:39:11 AM »
Hardly any.  The boat was in New Orleans until 1969 as a reserve boat.  We picked it up later that year in Port Orange TX.   The boat did not see any sea duty from 1959 to 1969 though.   
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2008, 05:44:42 PM »
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No it is hydraulic oil, we recently bought hydraulic oil from Catipiller and it is the same consistancy, heavy duty hydraulic oil is much heaver than brake fluid.
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2008, 07:57:12 PM »
That's important to know.  How much fluid did you need to buy and what did it cost?
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2008, 08:10:34 PM »
Can't be too much, most of the logging jobs we go to will have a pile of 5 gallon buckets of hydraulic fluid for when their loaders blow a hose.
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2008, 08:28:15 PM »
It was for the ram the movie people brought to raise and lower the scope 5', it took 4 gal at about 11.00/gal. I am sure big accounts could get it for a lot less.
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Re: Bow Dive Planes
« Reply #25 on: April 21, 2008, 09:32:41 AM »
I think the hydraulic tank for the Batfish is right in the control room to the right of the "Christmas tree".  There are also two switches to operate the pump motors, a hydraulic pressure gauge, an air pressure gauge, and one or two site tubes to monitor oil level.  I tried turning the valves to the site tubes and they were frozen in place.  The tank looks like it would hold about 10 to 15 gallons and appears to be empty.
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