A Megger is a device that sends voltage through a circuit to test insulation. Just FYI for anyone curious.
@keldon_champion Жыл бұрын
specifically it tests circuits with relatively high voltage but low amperage somewhat like a weak taser, they sound like some fun guys to hang out with lol.
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
They turned it into a taser or as they called it 'a cattle prod ' and used it on the polywogs during the crossing ceremony!
@TheShurikenZone Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this additional intel, sirs.
@rpbajb Жыл бұрын
Is it called a Megger because it delivers one million volts?
@keldon_champion Жыл бұрын
@@rpbajb no their voltage output depends on which one, the biggest I have ever heard of is 10k VDC, they are called a megger for a similar reason to your logic but a different electric measurement. The original ones used a measurement of 1 million ohms resistance to prove a circuit did not have a short to ground and if it passed that test then the circuit insulation passes the test. Most of the older ones were 500-1000 VDC which while not 10k is still no joke because DC voltage is a whole different animal than AC voltage.
@jamesbrowne6351 Жыл бұрын
Love these. My dad served on USS Ray 271R, a Gato class converted to a radar picket boat in the late 50s. He had a lot of great stories to tell.
@KennethStone Жыл бұрын
Ha! That's why you don't piss off the electricians. No pun intended.
@paulthiessen6444 Жыл бұрын
We plumbed our bathroom exhaust fan into the office of someone no one liked. Word got around, and anyone taking a dump used our bathroom.
@kbalch Жыл бұрын
Great stuff, as always, though I wish you'd have shown the interior of the former head space, as well as the engineer's office. Along those same lines, I'd love to see a longer video showing a complete tour (stem to stern) of every space on the boat.
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
Well the cabinet is rather empty. The engineering office needs cleaning first. It's coming!
@bradgotschall3259 Жыл бұрын
Necessity is the mother of invention 😂. My dad told us of our uncle putting the leads from a crank telephone on the seat of the family outhouse. Story goes that Grandpa sat down, Uncle winds up the generator, Gpa starts cussing and yelling that there’s hornets in the outhouse 😂😂😂
@KennethStone Жыл бұрын
Hahahahahaha!!!!
@TooManyHobbiesJeremy Жыл бұрын
That electrical distribution panel is gorgeous ❤
@oldtugs Жыл бұрын
It's not really a distribution panel, it is the battery, generator, and propulsion motor control cubicle. It is used to connect and control power from generators or batteries to motors and to connect batteries in series or parallel. Auxiliary power is distributed by panels located in other compartments. Some boats had the motor generators that produced AC in the pumproom beneath the control room and some had them in the maneuvering room where this video was filmed.
@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын
i love the phrase "hidden history"--makes the videos very suspensful!
@randyogburn2498 Жыл бұрын
What an electrifying tale.
@mrkeiths48 Жыл бұрын
What a thrill to see a fleet boat from back in the day and the arrangement of equipment. As an electrician's mate who served on a nuc fast attack boat, I know that pic you showed of the maneuvering area watchstanders is priceless. Thanks, and keep the great videos coming. ( I'm still laughing about that poor guy getting meggered while in the head.)
@jeffsr8300 Жыл бұрын
Great story, Thanks 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
@andrewd.1113 Жыл бұрын
Your videos are always great, because you can make History come to life! I'm glad I found your channel!
@paulbfields8284 Жыл бұрын
Been to the COD twice.. I could walk around there easily for days on end. Live in Akron area. Hope I can make it up yet this summer and see all the improvements. Dry dock trip was very impressive. Still in awe of our technology and mechanical manufacturing capabilities during WW2. Just wish there was a way to safely make such a great museum such as this fully operable,. I know I know.. never gonna happen. I can dream can’t I? Keep ‘em coming.
@eddiekulp1241 Жыл бұрын
Keep history alive
@bigsarge2085 Жыл бұрын
Oh, Smitty! Every unit has one.
@robertporterfield2023 Жыл бұрын
Great presentation as usual!
@jastrapper190 Жыл бұрын
So glad I found this channel! Subscribed. Awesome videos. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@ironpig701 Жыл бұрын
This is a case like we had at a small shop. We had 2 bathrooms. One in office and one in the shop. Well if you needed to go #1 use either. But if it was tacos last night and you were going to wreck the toliet you went out into the shop. Ive been on a couple sub tours as we have one at OMSI musuem in portland oregon and and have done the uss bowfin at pearl harbor twice. Find your little history lessons/stories much more entertaining and informative
@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын
TMI🙃🤣😂😁
@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын
im on the crew of the cod and a WW2 historian as my dad was in the Pacific on an APA ( troop transsport) and am ggoing to pearl in february--i booked the tour for a 9-hour day at Pearl itself. starting with the Arizona ,do they let you walk around anywhere u want to there? I ddont want to get arrested!☺🤣😂🙃
@SubTroppo11 ай бұрын
"Smitty" and the Megger: I worked on seismic boats and a Megger was available on but as far as I know it was never put to its best use. ps As I may incorrectly recall the Megger was used at a pinch to re-connect through welding, parted electrical conductors in the hydrophone "streamer" cable, whilst deployed.
@kh40yr Жыл бұрын
Culinary Specialist Second Class Buckman in the "All Quiet" scene from Down Periscope. Poor kid almost gave away their location. I wonder if they did shoot him out of a torpedo tube. Interesting story. Thank you Navy!.
@TennesseeTim-fv3or Жыл бұрын
These videos are great. Love the short format.
@elsart0 Жыл бұрын
Well, using the head in the room only for "non-smelly jobs" and the other 3 for the "heavy jobs" could have worked pretty well, in the end.
@hipflask Жыл бұрын
Outstanding lol this is my new favourite channel
@anthonyburke5656 Жыл бұрын
It should be noted, the US submarines were palaces, compared to British and Nazi submarines (I won’t mention Japanese submarines).
@johnny5805 Жыл бұрын
It would have been nice to have seen inside one of the 'heads' to appreciate how tiny they are.
@ub1953 Жыл бұрын
Always heard an active sub smelled a combination of diesel, B.O.; food cooking; and sometimes sewage
@bluerebel01 Жыл бұрын
That was quite intriguing, haha. I appreciate the video and look forward to more.
@lindabrashear57 Жыл бұрын
Just heard the Smitty story last weekend on my Cod tour. 😂
@Doggeslife Жыл бұрын
if I was Smitty I'd crap on the floor in there as payback and say deal with the smell and mess because you literally shocked the sh_t out of me.
@ryanjones6303 Жыл бұрын
That was a great prank. I love this kind of history.
@crazyguy32100 Жыл бұрын
"and they had a Meggar" Yep, those things hurt. Source: previous experience with asshats while in tradeschool as industrial mechanic/electrician
@EliteExteriorPaintingCalgary Жыл бұрын
Boss Your the Best 💪 I can see everything like I've never seen
@nomore9203 Жыл бұрын
Oh, CRAP that is a good story.
@Crodmog83 Жыл бұрын
This is really cool. Thank's for sharing.
@vger9084 Жыл бұрын
In the book Final Harbor, a similar story involving the head and electricity was told. Except it involved an officer beating his wife. Don't mess with electricians. 😂😂😂
@petesheppard1709 Жыл бұрын
A hilarious story--I thought of this as well! In the novel, the officer would also deliberately not clean behind himself after using the head, leaving it for the sailors. Who knows, maybe the crew of the sub Harry Homewood (the author) did pull the same stunt on their boat...
@MichaelJones-uw8gi19 күн бұрын
Station on decommission crew of the USS Clamagore, SS343 a Balao class boat.
@robertpoore7604 Жыл бұрын
Great story.
@anthonylowder6687 Жыл бұрын
Boy talk about being on the hot seat!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🚽🚽🚽🚽⚡⚡⚡⚡
@Daniel-S1 Жыл бұрын
Yep, in military service there is always that one guy that hasn't yet realised he is in the military and needs to become a team player, and needs to be taught the hard way (for him). In the air force one way to help that type of guy was a medieval set of 'stocks' used in conjunction with a lot of water.
@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын
hmm--thats when u can really call it the "hot seat"☺😚🤣😆
@HMTOlympic5151 Жыл бұрын
Great story ❤❤❤❤
@skovner Жыл бұрын
So the aft compartments are like Vegas - whatever happens there, stays there. And I guess for Cod, three heads are better than 4
@pfsmall Жыл бұрын
Great story!!
@bigdaddy7119 Жыл бұрын
Soooo…..THAT’S where the phrase “Hot Shit” came from! 😂
@charletonzimmerman4205 Жыл бұрын
Didn't they have "PINE-TREE" air fresheners. ?
@markrhoades3421 Жыл бұрын
That would be referred to as lessons Learned
@pixelpatter01 Жыл бұрын
Did anyone save the reading from the megger after the resistance check?
@dannywilliamson3340 Жыл бұрын
Ahhhh....the smell of San. 2!
@hlebo Жыл бұрын
A nice video, but why didn't you show inside the head, or the engineer's office?
@WhatAboutTheBee Жыл бұрын
Toilet Taser!
@christopher5723 Жыл бұрын
A war of [bowel] movement...
@tadfitch3294 Жыл бұрын
Good story. Is there any thought about restoring that space to its WWII configuration, or is it just not worth the effort? It seems like a poor design to put a head there with the lack of ventilation, although it seems well-intended.
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
Our focus date for restoration is 1953 after the head was removed. We could get a head from a dead sub but the fact it was removed in 1951 is part of our history.
@tadfitch3294 Жыл бұрын
@@paulfarace9595 Thank you for the response, that makes sense.
@zsoltbartha900 Жыл бұрын
This was awesome thank you!
@slartybartfarst55 Жыл бұрын
A great story! 🤣
@skovner Жыл бұрын
And for those who want to know what being on these boats was like in the 60's, liik up After Battery Rats by Dex Armstrong.
@henrycarlson7514 Жыл бұрын
So Wise , Thank You . Embarasing but to common
@cptcosmo Жыл бұрын
Taco Tuesday nightss and Wed.mornings must be an odious even on submarines...
@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын
Embarrasingly, i never knew that toilet was there!😁😅🤣🙃😉
@janjones4536 Жыл бұрын
This room always seemed to be confusing to visitors, i recalled
@anthonyburke5656 Жыл бұрын
They didn’t call them “Pig Boats” for no reason, no water for washing, 2 toilets, locked in your own and others farts for 24/7
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
The pig boats name actually refers to the pre-fleet submarine classes like R-, O-, and S-classes... the fleet subs were comparatively luxurious.
@BruinHerr-bj7uk9 күн бұрын
I been on two subs. One smelled just like the inside of my hockey gear bag. The other one was worse.
@RichardT2112 Жыл бұрын
Shitty for Smitty 😂
@93FORDMUSTANG Жыл бұрын
Have you done any videos on the battery deck?
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
Not yet!
@quarant1353 Жыл бұрын
Any USS Cod cookbooks ?
@billclarke5916 Жыл бұрын
No actual film of the head?
@hond654 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me about Danny Trejo and the 3 headed Shark Attack movie. Don't ask me how I ended up watching it. Definitely the 3 headed Cod was more entertaining to watch.
@SpicyLunarDust Жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard at this.
@glennchambers2220 Жыл бұрын
Smitty? Why it was Seaman Hornsby!
@billkallas1762 Жыл бұрын
Couldn't they let it be known that that head should only be used for peeing? The traffic might be increased, but it would keep the odors down.
@peterrajnak Жыл бұрын
That's why I have 4 or 5 meggers.
@edwardloomis887 Жыл бұрын
They were called pig boats for a reason.
@russoley8995 Жыл бұрын
He dint show where the head was
@craigcook1571 Жыл бұрын
I was Smitty😬
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
I thought you were Sparticus...
@craigcook1571 Жыл бұрын
@@paulfarace9595 nope, Smitty 🤣 I could sink sink a sub all by myself
@klsc851011 ай бұрын
I am just a touch surprised the electrician mates didn't find a way to leak some hydrogen gas into the head and touch it off. That would have made the seaman the first submarine launched ballistic missile! The result would have been something like in the movie Mr. Roberts when Ensign Pulver set off his firecracker in the ship's laundry! I have a true civilian head story for all from the late 1960s as seen on WOOD TV-8 in Grand Rapids MI. The reporter was the late Dick Evans. A lady was spraying her hair with a brand new jumbo can of hair spray. The spray valve stuck open. Not knowing what else to do, she pointed the can into the toilet bowl and put the seat on it to hold it. She left the room. A bit later after the can had emptied, her husband when in to take a dump. While sitting on the stool, he lit a cigarette with a match and tossed the lit match into the toilet. BOOM! He is tossed across the room. The toilet bowl is shattered. Hubby's butt is torn up from shrapnel from the toilet and bleeding. Wife calls for the ambulance. The ambulance crew does first aid on the lacerated rear. The load him onto a litter. The crew wants to know what the heck happens. As they are carrying him to the ambulance she explains what happened. The ambulance crew starts laughing so hard they drop poor hubby out of the litter. In hitting the ground hubby breaks his arm! Dick Evans some how managed to tell this news story looking straight into the camera and not crack up in any way!
@robinwells8879 Жыл бұрын
😂. Was it shitty smitty or sparky henceforth I wonder. Reminiscent of the stinkoffs referred to in Blind Mans Bluff!
@burroaks7 Жыл бұрын
lol very interesting
@Paulftate Жыл бұрын
semper fi,,semper fortis
@johnpalmer5131 Жыл бұрын
Ah,the venerable Pig Boats.. a well deserved nom de plume.
@psychiatry-is-eugenics Жыл бұрын
Never liked meggers , you are using high voltage , supposedly looking for a problem .
@jamesburnette4120 Жыл бұрын
put it this way..the bastard that did that to me would get retribution.
@bugsycatsmith Жыл бұрын
Stop saying "uh" for Pete's sake!
@paulbfields8284 Жыл бұрын
Stop being “uh” Dick
@grizwoldphantasia5005 Жыл бұрын
Keep saying it; I prefer human speech, not scripted perfection. Might as well have a robot if perfection is the goal.
@peterlarson9970 Жыл бұрын
My name's Pete, and for my sake, you should keep your OCD to yourself.
@paulfarace9595 Жыл бұрын
Well I flunked radio deejay class at school 😢 and please understand that we grab our equipment, what little is involved, and go to the spot and begin filming... so I'm often putting it together on the fly... ahhhh yes .. 😅
@paulbfields8284 Жыл бұрын
@@paulfarace9595 you’re doing just fine. Pay the negative comments no attention