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Topic: Mk XIII Torpedo Colors & Questions |
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Will Day
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 Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 5:57pm
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I seem to remember the 155 boat had a FACE painted on at least one of their fish, so I think there must have been some slack cut by various skippers.......
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Will Day
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Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 10:24pm
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Jerry Gilmartin
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Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 10:33pm
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PT Modeler,
Wow talk about reviving a long dead conversation! Since this thread was posted, I had the opportunity to wire wheel and repaint a Full Size Mark 13 torpedo that we obtained from the Keyport WA Naval Undersea Museum back in about 2010. During the refurbishment and repair, while I was wire wheeling the torpedo warhead, I noticed it was a dull grey underneath. Then the dull grey metallic coating was able to be removed in spots where I concentrated the wire wheel for a long time. I later found out that this was a thin plating of Cadmium, evidently the military has used cadmium plating for years to protect critical parts of weapons from corrosion. It is like galvanizing with zinc only a much higher quality. These Mk13 warheads are all grey because they were all plated with cadmium, Hence no need to paint them, unless the boat captains just wanted to in order to match their camo scheme. The TM's I talked to would often smear thinned down cosmoline-like substance onto the torpedo after body sections since they were made from steel. Also the Yellow Warheads are painted Yellow to denote a Practice Warhead. Anyway just thought you would benefit from those discoveries I made back 4 years ago.
This shows the bare metal of the body and the cad plating on the warhead. There is no paint on either in this shot since i had spent the last few days removing it with a wire wheel
Another view of the cad plated warhead and the contrast to the bare steel body. I had just sprayed some clear coat over it to prevent rusting after I flapper-wheeled the body
Aint she purty!
Alvin Hansens shot from Samar
PT150 color shot from Bob Weise
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