How to Build a Battleships Main Guns - Is a Bigger Battery Better?

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• DR

  @Drachinifel · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• TH

  @TheCaptainbeefylog · 2 years ago

  Now I know everything I need to build my own naval guns. I&apos;m off to the shed!

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• SC

  @Scribbles_proud · 2 years ago

  Drach, whenever you ask the question &quot;should I do a video on the finer points of........&quot;, I can 100% guarante the answer is always yes, YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES! Congratulations on you new arrival and great video as always.

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• BL

  @BlaBla-pf8mf · 2 years ago

  For the second voyage of HMS Beagle, famous for its influence on geologist Charles Darwin ideas, captain FitzRoy equipped the ship with brass guns at his own expense so they wouldn&apos;t interfere with magnetic instruments. His purchase of brass guns from Rio de Janeiro in 1832 shows that they were still relatively popular even at that date.

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• CH

  @CharlesStearman · 2 years ago

  There is an amusing story about one of the M-class submarines having the muzzle of its 12-inch gun blown off during firing trails - the muzzle end remained attached to the rest of the gun by the wire winding, which unravelled as the muzzle part sank to the seabed, leaving the submarine anchored in place by its own gun.

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• KA

  @kai990 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Dear Drach, would you please do a video on the electrical systems of war ships in general and their history?

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• MI

  @michaelholt8590 · 2 years ago

  Bigger guns are always better. It&apos;s how I win every argument with my boss at work. My arms are bigger, so I win. Doesn&apos;t matter that she is 57 years old.😂😂😂

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• CO

  @coldwarrior78 · 2 years ago

  As an engineer, I must compliment you on taking a very complex subject and presenting it simply enough that my wife actually listened. A very thorough and comprehensive look at a critical aspect of naval warfare.

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• GL

  @glennsimpson7659 · 2 years ago

  You can see how expensive and specialised the gun making machinery was. &nbsp;So when a lot of it was scrapped after WW1, it was hard to reconstitute it in the run up to WW2, at least in Britain. &nbsp;For example, the 70 foot deep pits needed to assemble the guns and to cool them with oil (rape seed oil if I recall correctly) and the 70 foot long lathes and boring bars had to be recreated before any gun making could occur. &nbsp;Armour manufacture was similarly affected, which is why the belt armour for Duke of York was ordered from Czechoslovakia (and was got out by rail just before the Germans took over in Prague).

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• LA

  @LaPabst · 2 years ago

  Great job, I am a Machinist and have been for decades... We still use some of these techniques to this day to produce very high pressure hydrologic and air cylinders for the military.

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• SA

  @sattercaster1 · 2 years ago

  I live in Pocatello Idaho where we have a huge building where WW2 gun barrels were made. Inside are huge cranes, and a gigantic kiln large enough that train cars can enter, and there are train tracks running throughout the interior of the entire complex. It&apos;s been empty for decades, and in the late 80s my friends mother was the administrator for the entire park, and he worked there for a summer, so we got to explore the whole site.

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• FL

  @FlipsGTS · 2 years ago

  Finally someone that does it right. No overuse of music, no artificial drama inserted, or rambling like sugarhyped 12 year old. Very pleasent and informative video…

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