In article , argyle@nospam says...

Had a visit last week at a customer site to look at upgrading and automating
their plate mill. I was quite surprised to find the top 2 and bottom 2 main
drive motors labled port and starboard. I had to ask. They told me they were
motors from a salvaged WWII submarine.

Another customer has twin motors the the last stand of their cold mill. The
motors were made by Westinghouse and were about 20 to 30 years old. I sent a
letter to what is now Teco-Westinghouse asking for motor data so I could
tune the motors and drives. They refused to give me any information since
the motors were from a decommissioned nuclear submarine and the information
I sought was still clssified. All I wanted were the simple flux tables. No
big problem, I ran them myself at the customer expense.

Interesting to see salvaged marine motors in use in heavy manufacturing.



I wanted a schematic to fix a high voltage power supply for a WWII
tank infrared night vision unit that I bought at a hamfest. The document
was on file at the Library of Congress. They could not help me because
the document was 'classified'. So I reverse engineered my own drawing
and repaired the unit. Wonder if I should send them my copy for their files?

Is it just me, or did all the ostridges (those big birds, I can't spell
the word in english) pull their heads out of the sand and stick them
up their asses since 9/11. I can't get anything done anymore without
a mountain of red tape. Used to be, you could walk up to a PO2 standing
watch over the entrance to his ship at the Norfolk yard, and ask for a tour
of his ship, the reply was usually "Yes Sir, I will have someone here
to escort you in a moment". Now that escort comes to haul you out of the
area. I feel so safe now I could just **** (on the Mexicans sneaking
across the border anyway).