Brian's 1/48 Dkm u-Boat Type Viic U-552

[Bri62]

Mind you, I did partake of the engine room pot mess on many an occasion only cost me the occasional flight,

LOL brings back memory's raid the gally, chuck it all in a big pot with a steam drain, very tasty @ 2am :smiling3:

[Bri62]

Finished for the day the wife got garden centre plans.

[Bri62]

Should be finished this module today but apparently the trunking and venting is a real pig to get in.

[Dave Ward]

Fresh Water? In the MN. we had an Atlas Fresh Water Generator - used cooling water from the main engine ( a partial pressure evapoator ). We made around 22 tonnes a day - but only used about 15! After a long passage, all the storage tanks were full - so we overflowed it into the engine room, until about 250mm deep. added a couple of buckets of pine scented soogee & let the rolling & pitching do the work - cleanest tank tops ever seen & a scent of pine when you came into the engine room ( for a few days at least! ) This ony happened on long passages.
Dave

[Bri62]

Steam turbine main engines use a lot of fresh water and we had 2 also we had to test for the slightest salt content using silver nitrate if any at all detected we had to dump the lot to bilge we never had full tanks

[Bri62]

Going to have to let this dry fully before I try and fit the deckhead

[Dave Ward]

We had 3 water systems - sani water, sea water used for flushing the WCs, - washing water, fresh water, used for showers, sterilised by UV, - potable water, drinking water supplied to the boilers, galley, sick bay & various cold water fountains - sterilised by UV light & trace chlorine added. This was for around a crew of 35-45.
The raw water was also used to top up all the cooling systems. The boilers were heated by exhaust gas, steam used for heating. Fresh water generated by the cooling water from the main engine - we had a very high plant efficiency. No oil was pumped overboard, it was separated & added to main engine fuel. Rubbish was burnt in a fancy incinerator - the only thing that went over the side was tin cans & bottles. A small sewage system treated effluent. We were as green as was possible, and this was in the 80s..............
Dave

[Bri62]

Managed to finish this module on to the control room tomorrow.



not happy with some of the gaps

[Waspie]

We had 3 water systems - sani water, sea water used for flushing the WCs, - washing water, fresh water, used for showers, sterilised by UV, - potable water, drinking water supplied to the boilers, galley, sick bay & various cold water fountains - sterilised by UV light & trace chlorine added. This was for around a crew of 35-45.
The raw water was also used to top up all the cooling systems. The boilers were heated by exhaust gas, steam used for heating. Fresh water generated by the cooling water from the main engine - we had a very high plant efficiency. No oil was pumped overboard, it was separated & added to main engine fuel. Rubbish was burnt in a fancy incinerator - the only thing that went over the side was tin cans & bottles. A small sewage system treated effluent. We were as green as was possible, and this was in the 80s..............
Dave

How the other half live!! :smiling2:
On a war canoe, water! Propulsion gets priority. Been on water rationing before when the Evap’s have been playing up.

[Dave Ward]

I forgot to mention the swimming pool, en suite showers, and the steward served 5 course meals! Against this was a minimum of 5 months away from home, with only few hours time off - I've been to Tahiti ( Papeete ) 5 times, but never managed a run ashore - maintenance on the main engine, after 30 days+ at continuous full power ( 12,000nm ), was priority. Not strictly continuous - we had the Panama Canal transit in the middle!
Dave

[langy71]

Even for a quick windscreen wash!!! ( A quick splash and dash on our way South)[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1216804[/ATTACH]

look's like an F1 pit stop, but with a helicopter

[langy71]

All this talk of copious amounts of water makes me soo envious, as ex-Infantry our water frequently tasted of either 'steritabs' or that horrible plasticky taste you get from jerry cans when some plank has left them out in the sun all day.

Could have been worse though, you could be lucky enough to get 'range stew' for lunch...this stuff often festered in the 'Norgi' all day, (although it tasted like it had been in there about a week), before the cooks would think its a good idea to feed it to us... thank god for ration packs..and good old cheese possessed...

[Waspie]

look's like an F1 pit stop, but with a helicopter

Where do you think F1 got the idea from!!! ~everyone had a job and it was well practiced. My job was usually to sit there, hands on head!! (away from the armament switches!!!) :smiling2:

You should have seen us do a weapon load!!!! 3 minutes, refuel, two Mk44 torpedoes and away!!!! A couple of minutes and we could have two air to surface missiles stuck on!!!! AND we never ran over a mechanic!!!!!

[Waspie]

I forgot to mention the swimming pool, en suite showers, and the steward served 5 course meals! Against this was a minimum of 5 months away from home, with only few hours time off - I've been to Tahiti ( Papeete ) 5 times, but never managed a run ashore - maintenance on the main engine, after 30 days+ at continuous full power ( 12,000nm ), was priority. Not strictly continuous - we had the Panama Canal transit in the middle!
Dave

Bummer, I bet you didn't have an 18 inch wide bunk bed in a stack of three with anything from 6 to 50 blokes in perfect harmony!!!!!

Mind you, I bet nobody was firing missiles at you then either.

[Bri62]

I need a decent soldering iron struggled with the cheep one I have but you get the idea