Yes he has certainly grown into being a KZfaq personalty.

Haha! I agree! I told him to practice his scripts before hand.

Dude has a battleship, why be nervous.

I read this as AHHH HI I AM A RYAN

@@danielboatright8887 LOL. JUST. L. O. L!!!

It’s a good measurement!

Same

Americans will use anything except the metric system

@@Mad8vCycles in fairness, the British invented horsepower, they literally decided to use farm animals as a unit of measurement

@clever username yep. It's just a meme that we are the only ones on the "standard" system

An "unauthorized tool..." Was that some paper-pusher who said that?

Most likely due to the 1980 Damascus Titan missile accident. A tool was dropped rupturing a fuel tank causing an explosion and ejection of the warhead from the silo. After that they got a lot stricter about loose large tools around the missiles. I’m in no way affiliated with the Air Force, so that’s a guess….

@@cle_roknn3742 Yeah, dropping a tool in missile silo is a whole lot different than in your garage....

What type of missile were you assigned to?

Heed the words of Dr. Indiana Jones! Remember he singlehandedly defeated the Nazis once...

That would put a spanner in the works!

It'd be a good thing to grab, it'd probably only be $79

Just be sure to use it as soon as you buy it so you can return it when you're done just like everyone else does at Harbor Freight.

YES, I need one of those at my house. Glad I have a Backhoe to lift it, if I need it.

A cubit? Well close...anyway.

The story is true in regard to the Kitty Hawk, a friend worked for a commercial HVAC company that contracted a job on the ship. The ships drawing showed a void and there were pipes running through it that needed to be checked. they cut a door to access the space and found a complete machine shop from when the ship was built.

cardboard boxes are more comfortable than you think.

Or finding a misfiring cylinder.

My quantum mechanics professor did that also.

@J honestly it's always professors that have been at the school for years

@J He had tenure. Not that anyone would have given him flak for it, half the engineering program would be rioting if he was asked to leave.

I have a few TAs who, despite being able to book space for office hours, hold them at the student pub next door so they can eat and perhaps drink during them (something not allowed by university rules for classrooms).

Stories time please

Yes. Now that you've got our attention, please don't just leave us hanging!

Those were good meters. There was one that an antenna maintenance troop dropped from a 100 foot antenna. The thing bounced off several support members on the way down, and came to rest on the ground. They brought it to me to see if it was okay. I checked it out and it was still working. I think the steel bars it hit on the way down kind of broke its fall

We had a screw driver like that one in our maintenance dept. It was used for everything but a screwdriver!

@@terryboyer1342 Ditto. It's not a battleship sized screwdriver, just a USN sized screwdriver(we had one up in MT51)

Want to see a great look on someone's face? When they show you a screwdriver like that, ask them if it's metric or english! :D

@@terryboyer1342 Yes, slot head screws are kind of rare today, especially in that kind of size, so something like that is mostly used as a pry bar.

Still use one today right next to my Fluke.

I thought it was an old Simpson! Lol.

@@Beemer917 It was/is a Simpson. The military designation for that model Simpson Multi-meter is AN/PSM4 or AN/PSM4A. You can still buy them new, today.

Thank you! I had a really nice one and then lost it moving across the country. Now I'm going to buy a brand new one!

A real testament to their durability.

Congratulations on your coming out. I hope you both had a super duper swell time.

It is fairly difficult and prohibitively expensive to Fedex a ship's propeller wrench from Charleston to Paraguay. Ship needs to be as self-sufficient as possible. Part of that is carrying the necessary tools to repair itself (even if that requires a foreign port or drydock).

@@mysterymete That was my thought as well, they didn't know where or when they would need to service it.

Well, seems like the propellers don't just use one of a couple standard sizes of wrenches.

The sweep of an analog needle is still a very good visual tool.

I immediately noticed that too; my father had a 260 back in the 80s. Simpson still exists, and they still make those!

@@shawnbottom4769 A digital meter is great when you need an exact value. They really suck when you are are looking for a pulse or a transition.

Still use one today

Used a Simpson 260 back in the 1970's in our electric shop. Great meter. Now use nothing but Fluke. Do own. Simpson 5,000 volt battery operated Megger.

Okay, so I have never served or know much about the Navy in general (I'm more into the engineering and technology) so is that some sort of tradition or prank?

@@Tuberuser187 Crossing the equator ceremonies is a big mariner tradition, especially for those doing f for the first time.

Sounds like trucking would be a natural transition into the civilian world!

They need to figure out a way to cancel out the echo though. Maybe with a second microphone somewhere to record the echo so it can be distally removed.

They ARE using a lav mic. It's the black device on his lapel. In my experience, it sounds like the audio is out of phase. This is typically caused by recording his audio and the camera audio in stereo and the two signals are partially cancelling each other out. It can be eliminated by separating the signals into 2 mono channels and only using the lav mic.

Yup.

Used a Simpson 260 during electronics training in the early 80’s.

Purdue University still used Simpson 260 meters in 2000 for the freshman EE lab courses. Definitely a staple for many decades. The Fluke 179 is probably the closest modern equivalent.

We used a meter like that in wireline so it didn't set off our explosives

And, how did they join the armour plating before welding, ie on USS Texas etc.

Steel plate is usually cut with a bevel and butted against another plate with a bevel. It is then welded with a filler rod which leaves a bead. These beads are stacked until it fills up the grove created by the two butted together beveled plates. Whether this was done with a bevel on both sides and welded from both sides, or simply done on the face side would likely have more to do with access to the plate. You can find videos of thick pressure vessels like boilers, nuclear reactors, etc., being welded this way. The filler material likely varied in composition depending on the process being used to weld the plates as well as what was available. Though I would guess the majority of these plates were welded with oxy-fuel (most likely oxyacetylene in the US), followed by "stick" welding, aka shielded metal arc welding (SMAW). In WWII oxyacetylene would have been preferred because the acetylene could be made on site or nearby, and didn't require specially coated rods like SMAW does. It also enjoyed the most infrastructure for logistics at that time.

@@alexwood5425 Older armour was riveted.

My Uncle was a welder in the Phila Navy Yard and welded on BNJ during her construction. He told me that to weld to armor, the armor has to be preheated in a similar fashion that one would preheat cast iron. Class B armor can be welded on both the back and face if preheated, but Class A can only be welded on the back; if you preheat and weld on the face, it "spoils" or negates the heat treatment that creates the face-hardening.

When I was in the late eighties one of those rumors had it such was found on the USS Cape Cod. I suspect this is one of the tales too good to not be told over and over again and too fun not to find new legs with each generation of sailors. Half the fun is getting people to believe you.

My father served on the Missouri during and after WWII, he told me pipe racks was all he slept on. Many of them, depending on location were chained up when not in use, so he rarely had a chance to lay down to snooze outside of his shared rack time. He told me sailors got use to taking a quick snooze here and there standing up, if you had a free minute or two. Best wishes 👍

I heard it as the Kitty Hawk. Story I heard was it was found by some engineer tracing piping. Supposedly traced a line going into a bulkhead, and couldn't find where it went out on the "other side".