International tug at bottom of ocean

I saw they found the wreckage of the USS Hornet carrier. Sunk in 1942. It is so deep that there is very little sunlight so minimal corrosion. This tractor looks better than some I have seen at auctions and nicer than than a few I have seen in use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBOPqNR_nN0

My first duty station was on the Abraham Lincoln. Carrier duty is an experience.

get KOO to retrieve it and it'll run again!

That video/picture is sure makin the rounds, this is the 3rd forum I've seen it on... Wink

IH sure got its money's worth, offa that lil decal!

And It should be left alone, its a war monument! Thumbs Up

Bout the time that hit the air there'd be a century of rust kicking in all at once.

that's a heck of a hole below it

The tires look like their still full!

When it went down, were the aircraft on deck or in the air? And if in the air, where did they land?

I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.

shameless dude wrote:

that's a heck of a hole below it

Just how thick is the metal where that hole is?

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Walker wrote:

At 6000 feet by all rights that radiator should be about the thickness of a quarter. Water pressure is pretty heavy duty down there. Which makes me wonder, does water pressure have any affect on something filled with water?

At 6000ft, the ambient pressure will be 182.5 atmospheres... 2680psi.

IF the radiator was filled with gas, it would have been crushed... but several things in play here... first being, that it, and the block, was mostly full of liquid coolant... second, is that the system is inherently vented above a certain differential pressure. the cap on that tractor was probably good for not much more than 6psi or so, and the cap seal is certainly incapable of much more than that in any direction. Second, is that if there was any pressure crushing the upper or lower tanks, it would breach the solder joints in where the tubes meet the tanks FIRST.

Any of those circumstances would allow immediate inflow of seawater, and thus, compress any entrapped gasses, and allow any NOT trapped to escape.

This means the pressure INSIDE, is equalized with OUTSIDE, which means there's NO additional deflection imposed on any part of it.

Same would be true for the gas tank, as it was vented via the cap.

Many of you may have already seen the news...but for those who haven't... marine surveyors operating deep-see exploration equipment were doing forensic examination of the wreckage of the Titanic, to learn more about the techniques of shipbuilding and engineering.

The engineers were amazed that even though the boilers were down 12,500ft for over a hundred years, there was still water in them!!!

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Probably different alloying of the steel and paint for corrosion resistance.

1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp

As commented this is the story that is everywhere. Wink

It was reported else where that it rests at 17,500 feet. So less oxygen less rust, but even greater pressure.

Edited by Ray54 - 16 Feb 2019 at 1:37pm

Maybe the tires were ballasted to help keep em on a rocking deck (lower center of gravity) or for traction pulling loads on a smooth well swabbed deck?

Edited by chaskaduo - 16 Feb 2019 at 12:32pm

1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp

Yeah he definitely has the polymuric valance viscosity of the water ohm down.

1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp

I'm wondering if the salt actually gets into the metal and causes a change in the metallurgy or something else. Any chemist's here?
[/QUOTE]I don't know but maybe that would explain my old Chevy pickup. Smile

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