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JIMJAM
Jul 16, 2002, 01:44 PM
Never content, I decided to get the snorkel operational. It already had a servo horn on the base so I figured just run a pushrod to it and be done. WRONG. Getting this thing to go up,down then stow has been the most difficult project yet! Its always the easy looking things that end up being the most difficult. A 30 minute job ended up taking me 3 weeks of fiddling with it and its still not 100%. Here is aic with the snorkel stowed.

JIMJAM
Jul 16, 2002, 01:46 PM
Going up.

JIMJAM
Jul 16, 2002, 01:52 PM
Upright position. The snorkels were used in later U-boats so the sub could run the diesels and charge the batteries while remaining submerged.