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Sailor Steve · 05-09-07, 04:34 PM

Torpedo gyro, and depth settings could be changed with the torpedo in the tube. The TDC would either tell the torpedomen the settings and they changed them with a tool, or the TDC sent the information directly to the torpedo via a spindle. Lining up the connections properly is one of the reasons it took so long to reload the torpedoes.

Here is a link to how the Americans did it, originally courtesy of Snowman999 in a thread on the SH4 boards:
http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/tubes/index.htm

Scroll down to Chapter 7 for some good pictures.

As for the pistol, the best evidence I've seen is that arming the magnetic pistol had to be done outside the tube, without the switch that's in SH3; but I'm not 100% sure of that.

05-09-07, 04:34 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Torpedo gyro, and depth settings could be changed with the torpedo in the tube. The TDC would either tell the torpedomen the settings and they changed them with a tool, or the TDC sent the information directly to the torpedo via a spindle. Lining up the connections properly is one of the reasons it took so long to reload the torpedoes. Here is a link to how the Americans did it, originally courtesy of Snowman999 in a thread on the SH4 boards: http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/tubes/index.htm Scroll down to Chapter 7 for some good pictures. As for the pistol, the best evidence I've seen is that arming the magnetic pistol had to be done outside the tube, without the switch that's in SH3; but I'm not 100% sure of that. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo