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Offline Tom Bowser

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40 mm guns
« on: March 10, 2008, 08:13:25 PM »
Does anyone out there have a good photo of the hand cranks on a 40 mm gun for the elevation and traverse cranks?
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 10:11:09 PM »
Not sure how good you can see this but here you go:

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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2008, 11:49:30 AM »
The Batfish is missing those on her 40mm, as far as I can remember.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2008, 06:53:30 PM »
Thanks Travis, thats a help.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2008, 07:43:33 PM »
No problem, I just grabbed a book I have on the fleet subs and scanned it on the computer.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2008, 04:59:51 PM »
See the 2nd picture down in this thread:

http://www.submarinemuseums.org/forum/index.php?topic=49.0

That's the Cobia's setup.  Looks like the TBT is on the gun?
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2008, 07:05:56 PM »
Quote from: Lance Dean on March 15, 2008, 04:59:51 PM
See the 2nd picture down in this thread:

http://www.submarinemuseums.org/forum/index.php?topic=49.0

That's the Cobia's setup.  Looks like the TBT is on the gun?

No, the TBT is behind it on a stand, but the 40MM is blocking the view of the stand.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2008, 08:02:46 PM »
Here is a photo of the 40mm cranks we completed today. Thanks for your help.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2008, 08:15:12 PM »
Did you make that from scratch?  Got any prints?
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2008, 08:27:10 PM »
Those look really nice. Hope ours can look like that someday.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2008, 08:36:48 PM »
From scratch, no prints and hardware off the shelf on the target, the long arm is 3/8" steel cut to shape with a torch and smoothed with a grinder, the handles are about 5" long about 2" dia. threaded connectors (9/16 threaded hole used just because it was the right size) welded washers on each end, used 5/8" anchor bolts to hold handles. took about six hours to make up the two sets.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2008, 08:39:32 PM »
That is great for made from scratch Tom!
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2008, 09:08:02 PM »
Thanks,
Lesley did most of the grinding to make them look good, I stick things together and she pretties them up, She is learning how to weld also so we are becoming quite a team.
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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2008, 11:45:10 AM »
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Here is a photo of the 40mm cranks we completed today.

Tom - that photo will help me.  If you have any more, please forward them via email to ussbatfish@yahoo.com

Also, does anyone have any schematics/drawing/high quality pictures that they can't point me to?

Any help is appreciated.

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Re: 40 mm guns
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2008, 02:09:51 PM »
Tom,
Thank you from the batfish.  Again i cannot stress enough how great it looked to see the 40 mm moving again. 
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