USS Torsk goes to dry dock - Page 5

Sledgehammer427 · 02-10-11, 12:42 PM

looking great! I'll have to stop by once its back sometime

Matador.es · 02-11-11, 04:56 AM

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1831676.story

It made the news

AVGWarhawk · 02-11-11, 09:27 AM

Great link!

AVGWarhawk · 02-12-11, 08:08 AM

Sand blasting and primer continues!

CCIP · 02-12-11, 11:55 AM

Any news on fixing up those torpedo doors? I hope they do get a bit of a working-over - shame to see them in that state now.

The rest of the boat looks fantastic though - what a profile!

Growler · 02-13-11, 07:35 PM

No joke, CCIP. I say we take that sheet metal off of the torpedo doors and use it to fabricate hatches for the sonar dome openings.

AVGWarhawk · 02-14-11, 11:50 AM

If you take note....there is a missing torpedo shutter. There are six shutters in the bow. You see only two shutters on the starboard side in the picture above. In between these two was another shutter. It is not as bad as it looks although new sheet metal would be the tops! Welding work begins this week so I'm told. In all reality the stern needs a sheet of steel. The bow is in wonderful shape compared to the port stern. A cathodic protection system is being installed as well.

http://corrosion-doctors.org/CP/Introduction.htm

Gerald · 02-14-11, 12:04 PM

Very good shoots,

AVGWarhawk · 02-15-11, 12:59 PM

Word has it the shutters are being worked on or replaced.

McBeck · 02-15-11, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Word has it the shutters are being worked on or replaced.

AVGWarhawk · 02-16-11, 08:38 PM

Shutter on tube 5 removed:

Tube 3 access cover removed:

Repair on welded seam. Apparently quite a few of these are leaking and will be welded.

A photographic survey of the repairs will be done this weekend.

Matador.es · 02-17-11, 03:29 AM

Wow, some serious work has to be done there!

Jimbuna · 02-17-11, 09:57 AM

That middle photo of three above shows just how thin her skin must be in places.

AVGWarhawk · 02-17-11, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

That middle photo of three above shows just how thin her skin must be in places.

She has some soft spots in the belly as it were. These are being repaired. My concern is the stern is missing quite a bit of sheet metal. I'm confident she will get what she needs!

Jimbuna · 02-17-11, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

She has some soft spots in the belly as it were. These are being repaired. My concern is the stern is missing quite a bit of sheet metal. I'm confident she will get what she needs!

I sincerely hope so because my experience (in the UK) is that 'once they are gone' they never return!

02-10-11, 12:42 PM	#61
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02-11-11, 09:27 AM	#63
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02-12-11, 08:08 AM	#64
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Sand blasting and primer continues! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-12-11, 11:55 AM	#65
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Any news on fixing up those torpedo doors? I hope they do get a bit of a working-over - shame to see them in that state now. The rest of the boat looks fantastic though - what a profile! __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

02-13-11, 07:35 PM	#66
Growler A long way from the sea Join Date: May 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,913 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	No joke, CCIP. I say we take that sheet metal off of the torpedo doors and use it to fabricate hatches for the sonar dome openings. __________________ At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.

02-11-11, 04:56 AM	#62
Matador.es Chief Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 327 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1831676.story It made the news

02-14-11, 11:50 AM	#67
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	If you take note....there is a missing torpedo shutter. There are six shutters in the bow. You see only two shutters on the starboard side in the picture above. In between these two was another shutter. It is not as bad as it looks although new sheet metal would be the tops! Welding work begins this week so I'm told. In all reality the stern needs a sheet of steel. The bow is in wonderful shape compared to the port stern. A cathodic protection system is being installed as well. http://corrosion-doctors.org/CP/Introduction.htm __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-14-11, 12:04 PM	#68
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02-15-11, 12:59 PM	#69
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Word has it the shutters are being worked on or replaced. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-16-11, 08:38 PM	#71
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,257 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Shutter on tube 5 removed: Tube 3 access cover removed: Repair on welded seam. Apparently quite a few of these are leaking and will be welded. A photographic survey of the repairs will be done this weekend. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-17-11, 03:29 AM	#72
Matador.es Chief Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 327 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Wow, some serious work has to be done there!

02-17-11, 09:57 AM	#73
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	That middle photo of three above shows just how thin her skin must be in places. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!