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What to do when your boat isn't long enough

Thanks Haz very impressive. Lets hope they glued it together right.
I like the little guys running around on the double....or more.
Dave.
 
When you also consider the amount of work involved on the internal structure too - WOW what a feat of engineering.
thanks for the link Hazord.

regards Kev
 
Great! I enjoyed that Hazord.......in the car trade that's called ringing over here:wink:
 
In the U.S. when they build submarines, they build sections of hull (pipe Shapes) and populate them with all the internal equipment, then join the pipe shapes and connect everything together, welding the hull into one piece. When they retrofit a sub, and refurb the reactor, they don't separate and break it apart like they did in the video of the ship being extended that is hyperlinked above. Instead, they cut the internal equipment pieces up and fish them out through the normal access holes, and then bring in the replacement parts and weld them in. Due to the cramped spaces involved, they employ very small people and dwarves to get into the tight places to reweld the new equipment, sometimes having to hold mirrors so they can see around a corner to do the welding around the corner.
 
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I.ve seen this with a passenger aircraft. Making a F100 about 6 m shorter by removing two segments and it flew away about 6 m shorter as a F70.
 
Its been so long ago, but at one time I met one of the guys that did the structural calculations for the structure of the stretched C-130.
 
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