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RE: Rudders VIIC/41
Posted by: Rainer Bruns ()
Date: October 08, 2000 12:51AM

Hi Joe,
From a shipbuilders point of view you are absolutely correct, i.e.: a rudder stock supported above and below is the strongest of its kind and very easily done if one is building a traditional long keel/single screw design, where the prop sits in an aperture fwd of the rudder. One can build a massive rudder shoe, which will hold
the rudder in place even in the event of a total failure of the bearing on top. On the type 7+ 9, however, if the bearing should fail, the rudder and stock will drop and consequently that rod (loosely bolted to the axis center will bend like a piece of spaghetti, if it would not get ripped off. Thus not much of a support for the rudder, so must be another reason to be there. Cheers, RB

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U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Max 10/07/2000 09:07AM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Rainer Bruns 10/07/2000 01:08PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders joe brandt 10/07/2000 02:55PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Rainer Bruns 10/07/2000 05:58PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders joe brandt 10/07/2000 07:44PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Max 10/07/2000 09:02PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Greg Dorfmeier 10/10/2000 10:44AM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Jeff LaRue 10/10/2000 11:33PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Jeffrey LaRue 10/07/2000 09:02PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Max 10/07/2000 09:17PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Rainer Bruns 10/07/2000 11:14PM
RE: sorry my typing Rainer Bruns 10/07/2000 11:20PM
RE: sorry my typing joe brandt 10/07/2000 11:44PM
RE: Rudders VIIC/41 Rainer Bruns 10/08/2000 12:51AM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Jeff LaRue 10/09/2000 03:42PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Rainer Bruns 10/09/2000 05:25PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Jerry Pope 10/09/2000 05:58PM
RE: U-995 Type VIIC/41 Rudders Rainer Bruns 10/13/2000 03:17PM


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