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| Russian B-39 Foxtrot in Seattle - School of the Boat Photo |
| Series One: Forward Torpedo Room (Compartment No. 1) |
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| Photo #119 shows one of the breech doors. These are manual, with a hydraulic
assist for outer doors. The upper left shows the red drive peg in the blue
housing that operated the rack on the door ring with a spur gear. The red peg
in the foreground is the outer door actuator. There is a piece of angle-iron
screwed to the brass ring that supposedly prevents them from operating until
the breech is fully shut, and the block plate moves out of the way. Once they
starte the process of opening the outer door, the black horizontal rod from the
outer door actuator moves back, past the block plate on the door ring, so they
supposedly cannot open the inner door. It also prevent the drain from being
operated with the outer doo open, which happens in the block from the black
vertical shaft dropping down. You can see the manula drain on the tube above
the one highlighted here. The red bar on the right is part of the fold-down
ladder to access the upper catwalk. |
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