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Submarine Motors
Thats some neat info
"Argyle" argyle@nospam wrote in message ... 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. Regards, Argyle |
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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). |
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