Fletcher Gun Tubs and Mark 49 Director

[aptivaboy]

Heck, I still miss XP!!

I rolled back to Win 8 and now everything works, although the scaling on my CAD files all got messed up. Seriously, most everything remained the same in terms of relative size, but now scaled much larger. Talk about bizarre.

I'm buying an old Win 98 Thinkpad laptop to refurb like the one I once owned just to use for writing and general tech nostalgia. Win 98 was pretty rock solid, and XP and 7 were even better. 8 and 10 are the Microsoft equivalent of the WW2 torpedo scandal.

[aptivaboy]

I think I mentally blocked out Vista to avoid ever thinking about it, again. Man, what a piece of kludge. We're still using it at work, and the network is as slow and buggy as ever. We're transitioning to new computers (Dell's that were midrange three years ago and quickly becoming obsolete today) and Windows 7, which Microsoft officially ceased offering support for in 2013. Can you tell that I work for a public school district run by morons?

[aptivaboy]

That's for extended support. Mainstream support ended in January.

[pbrowne]

Bob, that aft D type tub looks pretty decent with the director tub, perhaps just provide a door opening and I think that's it.

Are you looking at making the heart shaped splinter shields for the fantail 20mm installations?

Peter

[TZoli]

Did anybody seen photos or drawings or even descriptions other then passing mentions and notes of the predecessor of this light AA director the Mark 45? Which was described to be being larger and not as useful?

This photo apparently shows a Mark 45 which looks like the same as the Mark 49!


http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/Misc/Mk49/

The Mk 49 director was a short-lived anti-aircraft fire director used on some US warships in the middle to late phase of World War II. It was a replacement for the earlier Mk 45, which had turned out too large, heavy, and complex for most shipboard installations.