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Topic: What's with the inaccuracies with pt-309? |
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Apr 25, 2016 - 10:56pm
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Hi Nic,
I understand your question was just out of curiosity and was not meant in a negative way. Perhaps the title of your post is a little critical by calling it "inaccuracy"? Maybe? Anyway I looked at the photos and that windscreen has always bothered me as well. It just looks wrong since it is too blocky and not faired in properly. We went to great lengths in Oregon to recreate and rebuild our own windscreen and it is more complex than you might think since you have several compound curves going on where it meets the top of the charthouse. We had to bust out the blueprints we could find of the charthouse construction and it was a pretty involved process so I can understand if some "Joe Volunteer" in Texas who was rebuilding the PT309 Windscreen may not have had access to those blueprints like we do. There was also a lot of trial and error "fitting up and trimming" needed as well.
Jerry
Here are the pics that Nic is talking about posted as a clickable link
http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Nimitz/PT309-1.JPG
http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/120530903.jpg
Jerry Gilmartin
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ThePTboater
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Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 6:32am
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That's the thing that confuses me Jerry, when pt-309 was restored it had the correct windscreen, but since it has been replaced with the blocky one, I'm not sure why, it's always bothered me as well.
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