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Digger
02-19-2023, 04:14 PM
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A female worker cleans the locking lugs for the breachblock
of a 15 inch gun after being lifted inside the barrel in the Coventry Ordnance Works during the First World War.
Shawlerbrook
02-19-2023, 04:35 PM
Rosie the Riveter.
alfadan
02-19-2023, 04:42 PM
Eh, ovens.. gun barrels... she's gotta clean something.
Joking!
Digger
02-19-2023, 05:09 PM
and I complain about cleaning my gun ..[smilie=1:
Winger Ed.
02-19-2023, 05:31 PM
I wonder how long the school is to get a job as a bore brush.
Digger
02-19-2023, 05:43 PM
I wonder how long the school is to get a job as a bore brush.
Ha ! ..:lol:
Winger Ed.
02-19-2023, 07:01 PM
Ha ! ..:lol:
It reminded me of the joke about the bear asking a rabbit if he had problems with poop sticking to his fur.
When the rabbit said no he didn't,,,,, the bear grabbed him and wiped his backside.
Recycled bullet
02-19-2023, 11:15 PM
Woah that's a big gun
Txcowboy52
02-20-2023, 01:33 AM
I’d hate to scrub the lead outta that barrel!
bedbugbilly
02-20-2023, 11:34 AM
Great photo of our parent's generation Digger . . . back when ALL Americans worked for America . . . .
Digger
02-20-2023, 12:56 PM
Great photo of our parent's generation Digger . . . back when ALL Americans worked for America . . . .
How true ..
WRideout
02-20-2023, 01:18 PM
Great photo of our parent's generation Digger . . . back when ALL Americans worked for America . . . .
If your parents were English. The photo is from Coventry, England.
Wayne
tinsnips
02-20-2023, 09:58 PM
No more whining about removing lead from my pistols.
alfadan
02-20-2023, 11:19 PM
I guess they didn't have a chamber brush for that; or an 8ft q-tip.
45workhorse
02-21-2023, 12:07 AM
I’d hate to scrub the lead outta that barrel!
I'd hate to supply that lead!
Hdskip
02-21-2023, 09:58 AM
this is from Wiki......Weight of shell: 1,920 lbs (4 AP crh shell), 1,938 lbs (6 crh AP shell – 1937). Weight of charge: 428 lbs cordite, 490 lbs cordite for supercharge.[
Digger
02-21-2023, 05:55 PM
If your parents were English. The photo is from Coventry, England.
Wayne
Thank you for the clarification , appreciate it.
JSnover
02-21-2023, 07:03 PM
"Get 'er nice and clean, love. Nothing but our best for Gerry."
Milky Duck
02-21-2023, 11:20 PM
good lass.....thats taking hand finishing to a whole new level.
stubshaft
02-21-2023, 11:25 PM
Try and tumble lube THAT boolit!
Nobade
02-22-2023, 08:10 AM
My father in law (rip) worked for Dahlgren on the big 16" guns. He was the smallest member of his crew so he got to crawl into the bore with a light and magnifier to measure throat erosion during testing. I used to kid him about being a human bore scope. Getting a worker to do something like that today would probably be illegal.
WRideout
02-23-2023, 08:52 PM
My father in law (rip) worked for Dahlgren on the big 16" guns. He was the smallest member of his crew so he got to crawl into the bore with a light and magnifier to measure throat erosion during testing. I used to kid him about being a human bore scope. Getting a worker to do something like that today would probably be illegal.
Permit required confined space entry.
Wayne
WRideout
02-23-2023, 08:55 PM
At least on an 8" cannon shell with which I am familiar, the steel shell is wrapped with a copper bourrelet, that actually engages the rifling. No leading of the bore, but lots of copper fouling.
Wayne
Rapier
02-28-2023, 05:18 PM
The 8" was a good gun to "shoot" as a FO. Very accurate, the most accurate gun in our artillery arsenal during Vietnam.
A little JB Borepaste, Kroil and some copper would get that done
1eyedjack
02-28-2023, 08:29 PM
M110A2 howitzer was still in use during desert storm firing the same 8" 200lb projo as used in the Korean War but with huge increase in propellant IMSM charge 9 was 84 pounds and the muzzle brake did what muzzle brakes do share the noise and blast!
johniv
02-28-2023, 09:02 PM
I’d hate to scrub the lead outta that barrel!
Or cast the boolits!
Brassmonkey
02-28-2023, 09:07 PM
Mmmm cordite, Spicy spaghetti wish it was still made.
Digger
02-28-2023, 09:48 PM
311121
Located in Nottinghamshire , England back then ...
Which one of the last two big ones do you think are the fit ?
The lady is able to crawl into the barrel as she is working so ....
Skipper
02-28-2023, 10:08 PM
310714
A female worker cleans the locking lugs for the breachblock
of a 15 inch gun after being lifted inside the barrel in the Coventry Ordnance Works during the First World War.
Looks like you could just climb in there with a belt sander and make a quick job of it. :)
Skipper
02-28-2023, 10:09 PM
311121
Located in Nottinghamshire , England back then ...
Which one of the last two big ones do you think are the fit ?
The lady is able to crawl into the barrel as she is working so ....
You ought to see the loading die set!
GregLaROCHE
03-01-2023, 12:40 AM
During WWII, they had midgets working on airplanes in places that others couldn’t access.
Thumbcocker
03-03-2023, 10:12 AM
Were the buxom girls pulled through the bore on a rope?
missionary5155
03-03-2023, 10:53 AM
When those 8" HE with time delay came, in they made nice deep holes. Always happy never had one of those land short.
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