Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] question about general design?

[Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com>]

--- Captain Nemo <vulcania@interpac.net> wrote:
> From what I've read, the dropweight release on the HUNLEY was of a threaded
> design, which may have failed when pressures on the weight exerted binding
> forces on the release bolts, preventing the crewmembers from being able to
> turn them.  A less-closely toleranced lug-in-slot arrangement (of the type I
> described) might have been less prone to such failures.

I stand corrected.

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