Off-Topic: Snorkel? was; Re: [TML] Battle damage Phil Pugliese 07 May 2016 21:52 UTC
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snorkels on USN subs built in the early '60's? I thought the last non-nuclear powered subs were retired before 1970 but now it appears that the USN was still operating some many years later? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 5/7/16, xxxxxx@comcast.net <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Battle damage To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Date: Saturday, May 7, 2016, 1:31 PM Hello shadow, During my time in the USN I had the fun experience of tracing wiring on submarines, four of which I served as a member of the crew, all of them built in the early 1960s after at least a decade or three in service. There were a lot of dead end cables had to be sorted through to find the cable you where looking. Then there are the cables that ran along the snorkel exhaust manifold that melted the cable blocking the cable run and having to route a whole new cable that in theory was changed is the boat's wiring guide. We had to use a different cable since the original was no longer made. Tom R From: "(via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 1:05:55 PM Subject: [TML] Battle damage This email was sent from shadowgard.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (xxxxxx@shadowgard.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows: Just remembered a real world construction "oops" that could make things interesting for the PCs. They've take some damage from a fight aboard their new-to-them ship. The engineer goes to repair a spot where some shots hit a major cable run. He stares at what he finds and gets on the comm. "Cap? I think I just found out why we got such as good deal on this ship..." "I don't like the sound of that at all. What's up?" "I'm gonna need everyone who can run a circuit tracer to help on this job. Y'know how the wires are supposed to be color coded and labelled?" The captain gets a sinking feeling. "What's wrong?" "I removed the wall panel. Needed to do that to patch the holes anyway. And I'm staring at a mess of wires. Oh, they're bundled nicely, where they haven't been mangled by the shots that hit the panel. and they are all the same shade of red with not a label in sight..." "All hands, this is the Captain. anybody that can run a circuit tracer report to the Engineer in ...." Like I said, real world incident. Only they found out during the acceptance trials for a new US Navy ship. Opened a panel and saw a sea of red. With modern automated construction setups you've got wire laying giozmos. Faster than having people snake all the cables around. and the contractor had gotten a deal of red wire. Worse, somehow the requirement for color-coding either wasn't in the contract or wasn't in the one the subcontractor had with the builder. There was a long, drawn out fight over who exactly was going to pay to re-wire the entire ship. This may be merely annoying to the PCs if it was hijackers. If its battle damage or there are pirates bearing down on them it's practically a disaster. You'll have to have a minimum of 3, more likely 4 people working on the damaged run. Because you'll need to send a signal down each and every broken wire and have somebody find where it's coming out. Then you label the broken end of that wire. When you start going thru the same thing with the wires on the other side of the break, you can start joining them up as you mind the "matching" wire. This can take *hours*. And only so many people can be working at the site of the break. -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) shadow at shadowgard dot com ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://archives.simplelists.com ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=EwREIRgLK8vaUEhNlnoNdSGKwnjoID8a