Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 315" video.

  1. What puzzles me about Nelson and Rodney: I get that the UK was allowed to build those two new ships, the US was allowed to complete two Colorados, and Japan was allowed to keep Mutsu, but why did the treaty require Italy and France to wait until the late 20s to build new capital ships?
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  2.  @alganhar1  the treaty specifically allows France and Italy to lay down 35,000 tons of capital ships, each, in 1927, 1929, while everyone else could not start building again until 1931. When First London extended the capital ship building moratorium through 1936, France and Italy retained the rights to lay down the ships under their 1927 and 1929 permits. Those ships became the Dunkerques and first two Littorios. France's battleship "France" found a reef and sank in 1922. The Washington treaty allowed immediate replacement of ships lost by accident. France used the left over tonnage from the Dunkerques and France, to build Richelieu. Yes, France and Italy deferred using their 1927 and 1929 construction permits, but the question remains, why were France and Italy not allowed to build new, "post-Dreadnought" ships immediately, as the US, UK, and Japan were?
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  3. Eons ago, I saw a US Navy recruiting ad with a pic of a Phantom, and the headline "0-150mph in 2.3 seconds", or something like that. So, even if the ship is making 30 kts, and the plane's engines are at full throttle, most of the initial plane speed is generated by the cat. There were days when I was on the Lex, that there was hardly any wind at all. All the Airdales had was the approximation of top speed that those tired old engines could generate, plus the push from the cat.
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  4. where did he mention that?
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  5.  @michaelmoorrees3585  Thanks for the reply. Not all engines are "interference" engines. It is only "interference" engines where the pistons will collide with the valves if the belt breaks. As others have said, most timing belts have a replacement schedule, usually a pretty conservative one. A coworker's Hyundai Excel had a 60,000 mile belt replacement interval, and an interference engine. He never had the belt replaced. The original one broke around 180,000, so he donated the then rusty, dozen year old car to a charity. I'm surprised Drac was being towed by a strap. In the US, tow trucks that lift one end of the car off the pavement and pull the car as a trailer have been SOP for a century. I have a photo of my Grandfather with the tow truck his shop used, in the 1920s. For the last 30 odd years, the thing has been a flatbed, that gives the broken car a piggyback ride to the shop.
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