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Sorry Giovanni,I forgot to reply to your post,ask me again when I am happy that it works ok,I dont do kits but once I feel that it works properly I most certainly would supply you with a set of mouldings and castings.nigelGiovanni wrote:The articulated rudder is really a marvel of engineering !
I'm lusting after this model. Hoping you may offer some kits ?
I don't think I would fancy the idea of a contact fuse much,if you where to accidentley hit something whilst docking or coming alongside the jetty it could get interesting to say the least. Originally the Hunley was fitted with a towed contact mine, but after a couple of incidents when they came close to sinking themselves, and another incident when they very nearly sunk the ship thats was towing them, they changed the boat to a spar torpedo. I think that these incidents might have coloured there view on any kind of contact torpedo, also there was the very real threat of placing the torpedo and not being able to back off quick enough to avoid being sucked into the hole that the torpedo had made. With the lanyard system the torpedo will not explode until the boat has backed of enough to pull the trigger, seems to me to be the safer option???david f wrote:Very interesting analysis. Putting the charge deep under the hull would always be more effective in destructive terms.
I wonder why they did not use a longer spar and a contact fuse? A much simpler arrangement but of course they were sailors in an era when ropes , blocks etc. were no problem to them.
David
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