Everyone who worked with or on machines has that, just seeing this I can just smell the electric motors, warm air, hydraulics and grease. Even the feel of painted metal is not something you will ever forget

BZ to the decommissioning crew!

This is EXACTLY why I have tennitis and hearing loss . Listening to those motors

@@jamesbaca6723 I was wondering about the lack of hearing protection. Probably wasn't a thing until the 1980s reactivation of New Jersey, I'd assume...

Thank you very much!

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Of course we could do How to Train Your Dragon to Train a Turret, presuming we could find a way to get a dragon inside...

@@davidnewell809 🤣🤣🤣

See that right hand handle grip? Guess what that trigger is for

@@jamesbaca6723 - Is it for the turret brake?

220kw motors aren't actually that big. Or maybe I'm just used to bigger ones,as I work on up to 2600kw motors (electrician in an industrial plant) But it's always great to see such old tech up and running, especially without (regular) maintenance for 30 years. More modern tech tends to break down every other day even with daylie maintenance 😂

I worked in as an Electrical Maint; tech in a steel mill, 300hp are little guys... in the unit I worked in we started up 6000hp sync. motors...great to see them get that turret rotating... always good to have the old hands there to do their old jobs...

@@paulmurphy773 great stuff would love to see one of those starting, I'm working in the rubber industry, so our motors are about half the size. Is it an American thing to rate electric motors in hp instead of kw? Here in Europe we usually rate them in kw, because electricity 😂

I think that motor only makes hydraulic pressure to move around the turret

Doing our best to make her feel alive as much as we can.

As I told Chief Marty a few weeks ago, seeing that turret rotate on video has never made me more proud to work aboard USS IOWA!

So were we! His calm in the middle of everything was a huge key for us. He never doubted we could do it. Neither did Mike or Marty. That drove the rest of us forward and made this happen.

He's watching what's essentially a compass. We'll get to that in a future video.

Thank you for the kind words about our videos. The bottom line is we are blessed with a group of talented, passionate, go-getters who know how to ask the right people the right questions and find ways to get things done. You know, where there's a will... The ship wouldn't be here at all without that mindset.

@@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles I've toured your ship in the past and I was very impressed.... I was especially impressed by the crew who I visited with that day. The people I met that day who were working on Iowa were totally into what they were doing. You could tell that every one of them WANTED to be there. In fact, one of the guys stayed past his scheduled quitting time just to visit with me. I do not live in California but I hope to be back in San Pedro again soon.... and if I am, I will certainly be touring Battleship Iowa again. Thanks for the reply!

@@SlipFitGarage Thanks for your interest!

Do you mean @richardkoehnen7348?

Yup, where have you been hiding?

Do you mean New Jersey's curator? They're still putting out videos like normal, I saw one today.

@@legogenius1667 Ryan made the claim that it was impossible, both now and in the past, for a battleship to train a turret under shore power. ~10 months later, it was done. That's what he means.

@@jonathanbaird8109 He said that the New Jersey couldn't draw enough shore power. You know it's very possible that the NJ and Iowa, on different sides of the continent, might have different shore power draws?

We have no doubt she'd come right back if she were asked. Everything we've started ran as if it had been working the day before. It's just mind blowing and pretty special to witness!

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Doesn't necessarily mean all of the Iowa Class BBs can turn their turrets. We're extremely blessed to have a world-class team with a ton of experience that had the knowledge and ability to figure out how to make it happen with our shore power, as well as a ship that is in incredibly good shape. Can't speak to what kind of power the other ships have or what shape their equipment is in. Would be cool if they could if they all could do it, though. It's an amazing thing to experience!

Why? What would be the point on an 80 year old museum ship that can’t rotate her turret 2 because of the mishap in 89 , cant turn turret 1 because it would block traffic and only turn turret 3 to load the prop shells for turret one display?

@martypalmiere7672 @richardkoehnen7348 ???

That’s how we did things in the 80s. Maybe your motors are weak. Maybe protocol changed in/from your era.

Yup.

Yes. We'll be covering that in a future video.

While each of the four Iowas have virtually identical turret systems, that's not to say each of the 11 turret systems were left by mothballing crews in exactly the same state. The train drive reduction gear has a capacity of 14 gallons of oil, did the yard leave that in there or drain it and replace with a preservative? The hydraulic part of train system has an expansion tank/reservoir capacity of 150 gallons (not including line and hyd motor capacities), did the yard leave that in there or drain and replace with a preservative? Were turret centering pins tack welded in place, or left free to be inserted and withdrawn? What condition were the electrical supply cables, motor controllers, and switchboxes left in? There are many variables to take into account. Shore power is another---are all of the Iowas connected with the same shore power capacity? Skilled and experienced manpower is another huge item--Do the four ships have an equivalent pool of retired sailors with the right ratings who might want to volunteer their time and effort? Do the organizations "owning" the four ships have equal resources to spend on any one project, such as training a turret? (Ostensibly the reason for Iowa's turret project was so they can align the turret to the loading position, so they can eventually load the many, many BL&P projectiles into the Turret 1 projectile flats so the weight of the projectiles can be ballast that is now in the form of water in forward tanks.) The other Iowas' organizations may have different priorities--for example, Battleship New Jersey's priorities (as stated in their videos) are to finish the teak deck project and then ramp up for a drydock period.

The people in charge of Iowa had lots of work to make the turret turn

@@SomeRandomHuman717 You Hit it RIGHT-ON-da-NOSE!! May I 'quote you' on what you said.... because working on the IOWA, There ARE, as you said, "...retired sailors, who MIGHT Want to volunteer..." M. Mares OS1 USN (Ret) Education, Tours, Food Services, 'Former' Gun Tours, and 'Former' Ops

Ryan doesn't have this crew.

@@davidduma7615 That's true---the talent pool at Pearl Harbor (BB63), Long Beach (BB61), and Norfolk (BB64) has got to be way deeper than in Camden, NJ, not only from a naval-industrial standpoint but also from a retiree standpoint, as those three areas served as Home Ports. There was major warship building in the Philadelphia area during WW2, but the industry was in steady decline after that and pretty much evaporated in the early '90s.

There is only one "system " in the turret that is not a stand alone. That one is the parbuckling gypsy heads.

@@richardkoehnen7348 That's good. I hope there isn't too much leaking.

No. We were being careful about how we started it - seeing how our shore power mound would the electrical load.

Note taken. Thanks. =)

Motor/ gearbox replacements would fall under a depot (shipyard) level repair. In general, the ship would carry high failure rate parts and consumables, but to answer your question, yes there are critical alignments that have to be done to keep the equipment from vibrating itself apart...

@@richardkoehnen7348 so you’re saying theirs no critical motor failures at sea lol? That’s what I’m asking. If sailors actually performed a form of shaft alignment that may be with a scale, rim and face with dials or double reverse just curious. I’m a journeyman Precision Millwright which is why I’m asking.

Alignments like you're talking about are pretty much beyond what ship's personnel have the capabilities to perform. MR or Machinery Repairmen on board can work miracles in the shop, but just even removing a motor or gearbox out of a turret would require extensive rigging, and removing other obstacles in the way, including ship's structure. So, you are correct in that the equipment was not allowed to break while underway. 😊