Evil Joker
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 | | 27 Apr 2008 12:23 PM | | could i use brass tee's from the pet store? to hook up my hose for my guns(Aquarium stuff)thay even have a check valve that i mite use for my box. i have a mav 3 in it
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Anachronus
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| | 27 Apr 2008 12:56 PM | | I would think that they would not be rated for pressure like the proper fittings would be.
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Greg McFadden
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| | 27 Apr 2008 03:02 PM | | can you post a link or picture? they may or may not be sufficiently strong for our pressures, but with some dimensions, it would be relatively easy to figure out if they would do ok.
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Evil Joker
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| | 27 Apr 2008 03:12 PM | | heres one http://www.terrificpets.com/pet_supplies/fish/aeration/valves/6607.asp thay look like thay would work | | Southern California Region Attack Patrol (SCRAP)
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Gettysburg114th
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| | 27 Apr 2008 03:38 PM | | It would be hard to say yes or no. Is there a data sheet that tells what PSI rating it is? To be safe, I would just go to Clippard for fittings. We have been using them for years.
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DKM Bismarck (battle ready)
IJN Yamato (Dockyards IJN Kirishima (Dockyards) IJN Mogami (Dockyards)
IJN Agano (Dockyards) SMS Lutzow (Dockyards) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TreatyCombat/
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Greg McFadden
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| | 27 Apr 2008 04:00 PM | | considering what I can find similar to that at mcmaster.com, I would be suspicious that the pressure rating on that fitting would be high enough without a spec sheet. | | | |
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Powder Monkey
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| | 27 Apr 2008 04:47 PM | | The only trouble with clippard is there is no place close to me and if I order them online there is a $10 charge on top of shipping really not worth it for me [V] an alternative would be great [^] | | IRCWCC Fast Guns New England Task Force, http://netfrc.com USS Massachusetts BB 59 South Dakota Class Battleship Awards
2008:
Nothing But Wet, and it sure was fun 2009:
Best of scale War Ship
Ball Buster award So do or do not. There is no try | |
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Evil Joker
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| | 27 Apr 2008 04:57 PM | | indeed | | Southern California Region Attack Patrol (SCRAP)
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SMS Konig - Battle Ready
SMS Von der Tann - Battle Ready
DMB Scipione Africano - Battle Ready
DKM Prinz Eugen - Battle Ready | |
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RichelieuBB
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| | 27 Apr 2008 05:11 PM | | It's not very expensive ... I say buy one and give it a try. :) | | Mike Mangus
Beware the French Revolution!
Operational:
HMS Erin DN
FN Richelieu BB
FN Verite PDN
Launched
Le Requin Xebec (AoS)
Under Construction:
FN Mogador DE
FN Gascogne BB (Treaty)
FN Bretagne (1/96) (delayed)
Mothballed:
FN Bearn CV
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Tugboat
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| | 27 Apr 2008 06:55 PM | | Yeah, what's the worst case scenario, that it explodes and puts a piece of shrapnel into you? It's not you NEEDED that eye...
Side note... is the powder magazine where you keep the powder monkeys? 8D | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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Evil Joker
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:00 PM | | i've put 100 PSI in one of the plastic tees for a fish tank and it didn't explode | | Southern California Region Attack Patrol (SCRAP)
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SMS Konig - Battle Ready
SMS Von der Tann - Battle Ready
DMB Scipione Africano - Battle Ready
DKM Prinz Eugen - Battle Ready | |
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Powder Monkey
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:01 PM | | I would be more concerned about your gerbil not your eye if it puts a hole in the hull too you will need the gerbil more than the eye[;)]
Side note answer only if there are bananas in there[:p] | | IRCWCC Fast Guns New England Task Force, http://netfrc.com USS Massachusetts BB 59 South Dakota Class Battleship Awards
2008:
Nothing But Wet, and it sure was fun 2009:
Best of scale War Ship
Ball Buster award So do or do not. There is no try | |
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Powder Monkey
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:02 PM | | okay I will be the one to say it 100 psi [:0] what in the hell where you doing to your fish [:p] | | IRCWCC Fast Guns New England Task Force, http://netfrc.com USS Massachusetts BB 59 South Dakota Class Battleship Awards
2008:
Nothing But Wet, and it sure was fun 2009:
Best of scale War Ship
Ball Buster award So do or do not. There is no try | |
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RichelieuBB
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:03 PM | | I use plastic tees myself, though I made sure they were rated for the pressures we use before buying them.
| | Mike Mangus
Beware the French Revolution!
Operational:
HMS Erin DN
FN Richelieu BB
FN Verite PDN
Launched
Le Requin Xebec (AoS)
Under Construction:
FN Mogador DE
FN Gascogne BB (Treaty)
FN Bretagne (1/96) (delayed)
Mothballed:
FN Bearn CV
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Evil Joker
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:07 PM | | lol. i took it to work and did it | | Southern California Region Attack Patrol (SCRAP)
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SMS Konig - Battle Ready
SMS Von der Tann - Battle Ready
DMB Scipione Africano - Battle Ready
DKM Prinz Eugen - Battle Ready | |
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Powder Monkey
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:07 PM | | Here is the true answer for you history buffs oh yes and you to Tug [:p]
powder monkey was the term given to any member of the ship's company who passed filled cartridges and shot during action from the magazines below decks. The suggestion that this work was done entirely by ship’s boys is a myth. Eighty to ninety people were needed to perform this task in battle and there were only thirty-one boys on HMS Victory. As the ship’s boys ranged in age from twelve to nineteen, many of them were not really boys.
For efficiency and to ensure a continuous supply of powder, teams of men, older boys and women (when carried on board) were organised on each deck to relay cartridges in a continuous chain between the powder magazines and the appropriate gundecks, with some men stationed at hatchways to hand cartridges up to the next deck. Younger boys were used on the gundecks to move powder from hatchways to the guns and to douse down loose powder around the guns to prevent explosions.
In most cases, the ship would be fighting on one side only - leaving the deck on the opposite side relatively free for the powder monkeys to run back and forth from the hatches to replenish the salt boxes placed well behind the guns. Each saltbox, containing two ready to use charges, was the responsibility of a member of the gun crew. | | IRCWCC Fast Guns New England Task Force, http://netfrc.com USS Massachusetts BB 59 South Dakota Class Battleship Awards
2008:
Nothing But Wet, and it sure was fun 2009:
Best of scale War Ship
Ball Buster award So do or do not. There is no try | |
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Powder Monkey
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| | 27 Apr 2008 07:09 PM | | Oh was it bring a fish to work and blow him up day dang I missed it again [:(!] | | IRCWCC Fast Guns New England Task Force, http://netfrc.com USS Massachusetts BB 59 South Dakota Class Battleship Awards
2008:
Nothing But Wet, and it sure was fun 2009:
Best of scale War Ship
Ball Buster award So do or do not. There is no try | |
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Knight4hire
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Posts:905
| | 10 May 2008 07:03 PM | | Oh Dear!
I had picked up a number of Plastic "T"s and am trying to fit them for 177 cal breaches.
Due to a number of "Honey Do" projects I had to put my experimenting on the side.
I am going to have to try a pressure check.
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Powder Monkey
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| | 10 May 2008 07:12 PM | | Clear...... Fire in the hole leter rip [:p] | | IRCWCC Fast Guns New England Task Force, http://netfrc.com USS Massachusetts BB 59 South Dakota Class Battleship Awards
2008:
Nothing But Wet, and it sure was fun 2009:
Best of scale War Ship
Ball Buster award So do or do not. There is no try | |
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jadfer
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Posts:609
| | 10 May 2008 09:31 PM | | I went to the clippard site and found a local distributor where I was able to get what I thought was good pricing. I didnt do well on the first try as the first distributor was very rude and wanted a minimum order of $50 and made it very clear that they didnt want to help me. Then I found one in Dallas that could ship and I got a ton of stuff for $85 that they drop shipped from Clippard.
If you can find one near you then you might get better pricing on what you want. I found the pricing on the clippard site to be at least twice as much as most of the items I bought and at times 1/5 as much.
http://www.clippard.com/distributors/ | | | SMS Baden - Battle Ready
FN Gloire - Battle Ready
DKM Uckermark - Battle Ready
A Trembling backseat shrimp - refit
SMS Von Der Tann - mothballed | |
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