Naval gun rifling cutting bit

[LittleLebowski]

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...373#post170373

[RJ]

Yikes. Those guns are big.

Person is to scale in this picture:

[awp_101]

That's awesome!

Ran across this pic last week:


Female worker cleaning the rifling of a BL 15" gun, Coventry Ordnance works, England, United Kingdom, 1914-1918

[flyrodr]

The USS North Carolina is moored as a museum at Wilmington, NC. It's worth the tour if you're in the area. Seeing 16-inch guns in person, and then reading about the rounds they fired (e.g., a 2,700-lb armor-piercing round 21 miles, propelled by 540 lbs of powder) is, well, hard to imagine.

http://www.battleshipnc.com/16-inch-...tery-big-guns/

[TGS]

Think about this:

If an Iowa class battleship fired a full broadside it would move the 58,000+ ton ship laterally 100 yards.

[camel]

Think about this:

If an Iowa class battleship fired a full broadside it would move the 58,000+ ton ship laterally 100 yards.

That’s awesome!! I wanna hit the button

[UNM1136]

Think about this:

If an Iowa class battleship fired a full broadside it would move the 58,000+ ton ship laterally 100 yards.

Yes, and the turrets are on rollers so that if the ship capsizes all the turrets will just slip out, changing the buoyancy...

2000 pound shells...

pat

[mtnbkr]

The USS North Carolina is moored as a museum at Wilmington, NC. It's worth the tour if you're in the area. Seeing 16-inch guns in person, and then reading about the rounds they fired (e.g., a 2,700-lb armor-piercing round 21 miles, propelled by 540 lbs of powder) is, well, hard to imagine.

http://www.battleshipnc.com/16-inch-...tery-big-guns/

I visited that ship multiple times as a kid when I lived in NC. Do they still have the alligators in the water around the ship?

Chris

[littlejerry]

Wow. So what does the drill look like that it was attached to?

[Amp]

I visited that ship multiple times as a kid when I lived in NC. Do they still have the alligators in the water around the ship?

Chris

Yes.