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[StartQuote] Hey Carl, I know it may be too late to make any difference but for what its worth, last week I was wire wheeling and refurbishing one of our Mark 13 PT Boat torpedoes and I took a few pictures to show you the real color of the bare torpedoes. (Unpainted) I found out by researching them that the warheads were made of plain sheet steel and then Cadmium plated. Cadmium is a greyish metal a lot like Zinc. It looks like a very thin coating that you can remove by persistant wire wheeling or polishing. (But why would you want to?) Anyway here are some pictures I took so you can see the true colors of the steel torpedos. I dont think they bothered to paint the warheads primer grey, that was just the natural Cadmium color. Jerry Warhead and air flask showing colors [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01859.jpg[/image] Up close bare warhead shows color of cadmium plate [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01860.jpg[/image] The whole torpedo sitting on a trailer [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01863.jpg[/image] The crew Ray and Tom hard at work on refurbishing the torpedo [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01840.jpg[/image] Another view [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01867.jpg[/image] Close up of tail fins all shined up [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01866.jpg[/image] Our other cutaway already color coded and lableled [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01736.jpg[/image] The back of the color coded torpedo shows engine [image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/DSC01735.jpg[/image] I hope this is of some value to see these pics. Jerry PT658 Portland OR Jerry Gilmartin[EndQuote]
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