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I’m a fabricator of many decades and quite careful. This cylinder was tediously snap-gauged so it is pretty dang near as perfect as can be in this...
Ok thank you! :)
I don’t think I’ve known of that type of bolt. I probably used the original bolts though the intake bolts were replaced. I’ll see if I did replace...
I’ve thought this too and I happen to have another set of gaskets anyway. Thank you for your opinion. :)
Re-torque after 10 idle years? - My 350 Chevy engine had an issue in that I actually had to hone out a cylinder by hand to bring it up to 40 over....
British though I don't know what ship she is. [IMG]
Here's another type of Navy camo. Sometimes this is done to keep snooping satellites from seeing what was up with anything going on on masts such...
WOW! Never saw anything like that! :) Thanks!
Um, yes. My point. :)
I have those M/Ts on the ‘73 350 in my ‘69 Chevy C/10 stepside Area 51 security truck. I’m her second guardian and bought her in the spring of...
HA! What a brilliant idea! :) (p.s. that was for Williebill.) :)
One RN group. Destroyers I think. US navy tried it out too. Wasn't as effective overall as grey. Supposedly the basis for the movie 'Operation...
Please find it! :) ~ https://www.sea.museum/2014/11/04/dazzle-ship-models/
There's a joke or two in that first photo but....I'll leave them be. ;)
Fish are confused enough as it is. Be kind. ;)
Thanks for the link! :)
Sounds like a 'sea lawyer' ;) rumor as sound alone would likely be the more important factor as to which way a ship was traveling. Periscope views...
Same reason 'Invasion stripes' were put on new aircraft headed for the European theatre....
Happens all the time. ;)
Now it's sub-urban...and quite a feat to pull off. ;)
Last I heard, unless that was stopped, the Chinese own that base now. :p
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/they-owned-the-night/
Weird...kicked out of being logged in while still reading and writing. :p
Yes. Picasso was a wide crooked stripe guy. ;)
Such ships, and probably some others without dazzle, had bow waves painted on the stern to make it appear they were going the opposite way.
Good heavens. :p
What plane? ;)
Love to have that book! :)
LOVE this! Shocked to see it here but thanks! I have collected such ship photos for a long time. There was even a 'pink' RN ship. :) Ever seen the...
Your wife? ;)
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