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PeterTareBuilder
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Posted on: May 15, 2009 - 3:55pm
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Hi there.
The armour plate was 1/4 inch in real life? That is a might thin piece of plastic in 1/32 scale and would be even thinner in 1/35 scale.
1" = 1/32"
1/2" = 1/64"
1/4" = 1/128"
The warmer weather is coming so I will be starting work on my 1/32 scale Lindberg PT boat model again soon.
MAybe some thin aliuminium stock would be easier to work with than plastic sheet that thin. VBG
BTW, this cockpit armour is what Kennedy hit and damaged his back on when PT-109 was rammed by th Amagiri.
Cheers from Peter
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TGConnelly
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Posted on: May 15, 2009 - 4:05pm
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Yes, he hit it when the boat got rammed and injured his back.
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Dick
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 Posted on: May 15, 2009 - 10:49pm
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Drew . . .
It was just that my fingers were doing their own thing typing something different then what my brain was thinking (your typical brain fart) and I didn't bother to read what I typed (dyslexia) and because of a short attention span, I was off doing and typing something else 
I would assume the top bar was wood or at least something more durable and able to withstand constant wear and abuse.
Dick . . .
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Jeff D
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Posted on: May 16, 2009 - 8:50am
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I think JFK's back problems started earlier, although the 109 incident certainly wouldn't have helped. The Amagiri hit was angled from front to back so the main force would have pushed the boat backwards under his feet.
According to a web site, http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g35.htm, Kennedy had a slew of health problems:
Back problems started in 1938. From 1941 they were "a constant source of difficulty". (There is much history here, yet to come.) Dallek has suggested that steroid treatments, "which apparently began in 1937," may have been causative.
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: May 16, 2009 - 12:09pm
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Jeff D,
I'm in agreement with you on the JFK back problem(s)...
I seem to remember that it was conventional wisdom at the time of his presidency (1960-63) that JFK had injured his back "while playing football" as a youth and the 109 ramming and survival ordeal had aggravated the old injury. Sometimes it seemed as if the reporting on his back problems blamed the 109 incident as the sole source of the injury.
The myriad health problems he had throughtout his life, as well as other aspects of his private life, of course, were pretty much covered up while he was alive. They were alluded to and hinted at sometimes, but...
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: May 16, 2009 - 2:23pm
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It is a well known fact (interview with Bulkeley in 1982) that Kennedy should never have been in the PT BOAT PROGRAM. Bulkeley had met with JFK's Dad over dinner to discuss his being brought into the program. Bulkeley knew all along how bad Kennedy's back was, but that was kept off his Service records. Kennedy's Dad thought that being in the PT program would be good for his Political ambitions after the War. Bulkeley himself was a self promoter and needed connections like Kennedy's to move up the ladder. In other words, both Kennedy and Bulkely needed each other.................
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TGConnelly
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Posted on: May 17, 2009 - 7:35am
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I SHOULD HAVE typed reinjured his back.
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