Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "King George V class - Design, Service and Myths" video.

  1. It actually surprises me how loose the tolerances are on a lot of machinery on these battleships is. I'm a machinist by trade, and even on large diameter bar grinding which is the loosest tolerance stuff we do, I can't recall ever having 1/100th of an inch tolerance on any job I've ever run, and you're saying that malfunctions were occurring because having 1/32nd of an inch was too tight due to flexing of the material in rough seas. I don't know if I could make a setup bad enough on purpose to not hold 1/32 of an inch. I suppose when you're dealing with a vessel of that sheer size with components weighing several tons and dozens of feet in length, the stresses of a rough sea demands a high degree of flexibility of the components, especially of the moving parts.
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