The material that the courageous's armour is made from is just styrene (fancy name for plastic) Same as the superstructure if Bob didn't make it from fibreglass(probably did). You can get it at most hobby shops if you need to replace yours, it's easy to work with and takes a beating...the SS on my cruiser is made entirely from it.
Well If I can figure out how to post pics here I will show you the damage caused by one Yamato class dual guns built by Battlers Connection. I have this verifed by 4 other skippers , that are well respected combat vets. If you want to see the pics send me your email address and I will send you copys. I am saying that this might be a fluke but these guns did shoot through 5 ply 1/4 inch ply and 1/8 5 ply, plus the V in the side of My South dakot that was also built by Battlers Con.That is why I questioned how hard is too hard. The guns on this ship are tweaked down useing a wrench. The ship is the first Battlers Yamato and is owned by Lee Donahue.I am not out to start a hoop la but I think that this harder is better is getting out of hand.
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Perhaps the regulator in the Yamato was not preforming correctly? Last time I battled against that ship it did not seam to shoot at a velocity above what could be considered good. I did not have any supersturcture shot though, and it was hit several hundred times. The surface was just dented a bit, and the paint knocked off. My ship has 1/8" ply for the bulkheads. While the Yamato was at the time, in the hands of the orginal owner, my understanding is that the new owner has not changed the cannon set up.
Sounds like there's something going on with those guns. We should remember that safety is a primary concern for all of us. In these days of litigation having an accurate system of checks and balances to keep the hobby safe is a must. Is there a max velocity for cannon in your rules? Or is it a max pressure rule? Either way, if my ship was handing out this sort of damage, then personally I'd un-tweak it! After all, it's a game, isn't it?
Darren, I agee with you about safety. For that reason Washington Treaty Combat has a rule about the power of the guns. We took an idea from Big Gun and used blue foam to measure gun velocity. Last weekend we did not have any fiberglass or super structure damaged due to gun fire. SAFETY FIRST bOb
Good to hear that you do have a method for controlling gun power. Over here in Oz we're classed as "adult toys", like paintball guns. We're not allowed to exceed 164fps at all,(a police requirement). To fire over this speed would breach our police permit and might get us charged with firearms offences! That's why we use a chrony instead of the blue foam. Firearms legislation also prevents us using lead bb's as they are classed as firearms ammo. Lead's nasty anyways, where carbon steel balls are bio-degradable.
Darren, Do you have any infor on the chrono? I would be interested in that. We in Treaty would like to "move up" to a chrono. That way if someone's guns sound hard during the battle you can bring the chrono over to the boat and check the guns. Blue foam requires clean-up after the battle. Little blue pieces of foam all over the ground. We like to leave the battle site cleaner than the way we found it. bOb
Like I posted earlier, the chrony we use is the v-locity, by viewloader. It may have been discontinued by paintball suppliers, as it has a tendency to cut and rupture paintball markers if it isn't installed absolutely in line with the barrel of the paintball gun. This dosn't apply to a 1/4in ball however, and we've found the chrony to be quite good. I did have to make an adapter to fit it to our warship barrels, but that was easily done. I think we paid about Aus$65.00 for it.
In the Buckeye Battle Squadron we are adapting the peneatration tests they same they use in big gun.This way we are not going to have a safty issue.
I'll say it! If those guns are hitting that hard the presure is over 150 PSI. I've shot my gun's at 75-220 psi and they seam to get really powerfull above 180 psi! And my interupters stop working under 90 psi. P.S. This was done in testing only.
Is it possible that the ship/guns in question are somehow getting liquid CO2 into them? This might be the source of the problem.
