Whats With The Wooden Boxes on the Walls?

[@stonebear]

My father was a radioman in the Navy, an airdale radar operator aboard the Lockheed WV-2 electronic recon aircraft. His best mod was after the Navy, though; at some point about 1962-3 he was stationed on Carter Cay, Bahamas, working for RCA under contract to NASA tracking the rockets coming off Cape Canaveral. At the time, CAPCOM was strictly business; they wouldn't let you know what was going on, or how long it might take, just that "there's a hold". So he would usually listen to one of two high-power AM stations on the Florida coast that covered the Space Program, either one in Fort Lauderdale, or WAPE in Jacksonville. After a while, he got the bright idea to set up a speaker on the AM channel back in the break room, so if there was a hold he could go get a cuppa joe and some pogy bait and have some kinda warning before the count resumed. Well, he ran the wire, patched the speaker into his audio patch panel, and then patched the AM feed into his speaker. Or so he thought. WAPE Jacksonville has since since 1958 (with a six year interruption in 1980) been famous for two things: Top 40 radio, and a very distinctive top-of-the-hour station identification. Hold that thought for a second. Dad hadn't punched the AM signal into his speaker setup. He'd punched it into the world-wide S-band comm net. And it was the top of the hour. "AAAAAAA-EEEEE-AAAAAHHHHH W-A-P-E JACKSONVILLE! THE BIG APE!!" A few seconds too late, he realises he wasn't getting sound out of the speaker, and runs for the patch panel, yanking the offending wire. Dead silence on the S-band comm net for an agonizing fifteen seconds. Finally, Woomera Australia comes back and says, "I say, old chap, WHAT WAS that?" And that, dear hearts, was the Ape Call Heard 'Round The World. Courtesy of a radar tech with the munchies. :D In 1986 the Big Ape went Big Time, FM... and this is what *I* heard at the top of the hour in 1991 on my way to Florida to watch a Discovery launch (STS-48)... kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4DOgmSVmsqVp5Y

[@unmountablebootvolume]

That's hilarious, unless you're the one who caused it. Been there, done that. Door intercom, had a patch panel in the basement, multiple different systems, different power supplies and nothing was labeled. I, just wanting to get done and out of that asbestos contaminated basement ASAP, managed to accidentally patch the off-the-hook lines (connected to the hook switches of the door phones, all in parallel) into the doorbell system. The entire building-wide high volume buzzer system. Whenever someone would pick up the door phone, a horrendous noise, somewhere between a dump truck's horn and a freight train screeching to a halt, would start thundering throughout the entire building, plus a friendly "Ding-Dong!" from the one buzzer that was replaced with a nice bell (after numerous complaints about its "unfriendly" sound), and the only way to shut this hellish screaming off again was to hang the phone up. Also, since some of the buzzers were integrated into the phones, the microphone in the handpiece picked up that horrendous honking, and gave the neighbors their own private performance of this car alarm concert over the (very loud) outdoor speaker. Needless to say, neither the people in the building, nor the neighbors, were very impressed with me that day...

[@dalesql2969]

In our engineering spaces, we just jammed rags into the 1MC speaker horns, and yanked them out when underway or when inspections were incoming. The Glover was a class of 1, so getting approvals for shipalts was less difficult. (Still a PITA though.) Before my arrival, a previous XO had a serious fetish about dirt in the corners, and had additional light fixtures installed in all the dark corners, underneath ladders and so on so he could see better that they were clean. I had an AC vent over my rack that blew cold air onto my feet. I added a hook for my laundry bag to hang it where it would block the cold breeze.

[@stephenbritton9297]

When I was at the maritime academy, we had just gotten a new training ship that came out of the James River reserve fleet. On one cruise, the 1MC took a dump. Ship's staff electrician who was a very old school guy and a couple of upperclass cadets spent the whole day fixing it, which included playing Metalica over it to see where it was and wasn't working. Just before the end of the day they got it all fixed, and the old sparky says to the cadets, "good, let's go replace all those screwdrivers with proper wiring!" YIKES!

[@Vinemaple]

Sounds like the kind of thing my school's port engineer would say to prank the deck department

[@HOLOGRAPHICpizza]

As a commercial electrician, I approve! lol It's temporary, don't worry about it! 😉

[@major__kong]

It's only temporary unless it works.

[@Daniel-san-86]

We would wire a headphone jack into the com system on the abrams tank so we could listen to music through our CVC helmets. It was a big no-no, so we would have to hide the cord when not in use.

[@Plaprad]

Did the same thing in the 130 world. Had a bunch of patch cables to connect to the ICS. If you had a cool AC, they'd turn on the loudspeaker so everyone could jam out on the flight.

[@louisberberich9091]

We hotwired our cassette decks and eight track tape playersto our lighting wiring in our racks in order to listen to music when off duty. Hard to find batteries when at sea for 6 months+.

[@Daniel-san-86]

@louisberberich9091 the tank runs on a 24 volt system. We would find a 24v inverter and wire it in so we would have 120v to charge our stuff. Also a big no-no. Lol

[@Plaprad]

@@louisberberich9091 One of the things that annoys me in Hollywood movies is anytime something needs done, they always go to some super genius scientist. "We need someone who can make this bomb work with this alien technology." What you need my good sir is a bored E-4 with the promise of a day off when it's done. Impossible? Gimme fifteen minutes.

[@maddogmaz1576]

Same thing with the hummers in Afghanistan. Just plug in the MP3 player. Made patrols better

[@skunked42]

So, one ship I was on, the folks in one particular berthing kept blaming the 1MC being too quiet for the reason they were always late or missed drills. Eventually we replaced the normal 1MC speaker with a weather deck style speaker...about a week later we were asked to reinstall the old one....folks werent late again after that.

[@kevincrosby1760]

Yep, that excuse was generally only used once. Also generally only used once was "the dial telephone ringer isn't loud enough". Really sucks when an external buzzer ends up installed in your berthing lounge.

[@SeanBZA]

@@kevincrosby1760 Or when you replaced the ringer with an external ringer, which would actually operate off the existing ring voltage no problem, but used a folded horn to impedance match the diaphragm motion to the air better.That is pretty loud when you actually match well, unlike the original ringer, even though the input power is exactly the same, and it has a REN of 1.0.

[@JimLahey14]

I realized the main return trunk for the central air system in my parents house ran down a stud bay in my room(exceptionally hot in the summer). So I cut a 16x20” hole and put a wall duct cover over it. My room became an ice box. Took my dad 3 years to notice, and when he saw he nodded & said… “about time you used your head for something besides a hat rack”

[@oleran4569]

My son, when a teenager, thought we kept the house too cool in winter, but he didn't complain. He had a water bed (kinda dates the story), so he just turned up the bed's temp control to slowly bring his room to a temperature he liked. I never understood how he could sleep in such a warm bed, but still admired his solution to the problem. Yes, we did turn up the heat after seeing what he'd done.

[@JimLahey14]

@@oleran4569 lol what a good story! As kids were never sure of a solution in fear of making our parents mad. It brings out a creative side that I think all children should explore. Looks like your son and I were both trying to solve our problems with the least family impact.

[@alpham777]

I'm a diesel mechanic. I can't even list the mods and shams I hath wrought. Everything from simple compressor hose size adapters to buying stuff at an approved vendor and returning it to another store without the receipt for store credit for the shop Item I really need. The man can leave the E-4 Mafia but the E-4 Mafia never leaves the man.

[@WardenWolf]

Once taped an index card inside the door to a computer case. It was resonating with the fans and making a rattling noise, and the index card was there to de-resonate it. It worked. I've also used adhesive felt strips for the same reason.

[@pete70091]

Ryan, I was stationed in USS Frederick (LST-1184), my first ship, from May 22, 1998 to October 5, 2002 (decom) and was an Engineman. Without a doubt hands down my favorite command of a 21 year career. Now for the 1MC story. CDR Roger Perkins had command of the ship from August 2000 to February 2002. During that period EVERY time we got the ship underway just before we reached the sea buoy and secured from sea and anchor he would have the bridge team play On the road again (Willie Nelson) in it's entirety. All 2 minutes and 38 seconds of it. That did not mix well at all with the ships original 1MC tube amplifier. We were the only LST in commission at that time as LaMoure County had already run aground. After completely depleting the Navy stock system of all parts and using all the parts from the "A" amp to fix the "B" amp we had to have the system replaced with a commercial solid state Crown stadium amplifier. Looking back I never realized how important playing that song was when we got underway. It really meant so much as far as being on a ship in the Navy. I have it on right now. If anyone was onboard Frederick at that time, reads this and remembers this PLEASE comment. Perkins was my favorite CO. This guy was out of control awesome. From the Penny loafers and coveralls with no rank insignia and no tee shirt to starting every address on the 1MC with "Ok my hero's", to submitting a CASREP for the ships potable water system so we could stay in Palau for an additional week to falling off of the stern gate when getting into the Captains gig to depart the ship after his change of command. Does anyone remember the "Beer Barge" that was tied up along side for over a month in PI? Did we officially run aground in Okinawa or was that just a scrape? Too much happened back then that would be unheard of in today's Navy. If anyone has more memories of that time please share. There is too much to type. Ryan, if I was closer to you and USS New Jersey I would be there every day working with you. Maybe in a few years after I retire again! Pete

[@danwhite2035]

AC ducting. I was a gunsmith working at Walker Arms Co. for just a bit shy of 20 years. I specialized in metal finishng and worked in a separate room set up with large electric buffers to polish metal. Management had new airconditioning units installed while I was there but they would not pay to run duct work to my "polishing room" area. I saved up coffee cans, got up on a step ladder and chiseled a hole into the AC ducting in the ceiling and ran a duct taped coffee can vent over to the wall into my polising area. I did not ask, I just did it. I was mad that the management did not provide AC for my area. First time the CEO of the company walked through he just looked up, kind of shook his head and walked on.

[@johngollsneider1078]

Obviously it makes the ship unsinkable. Wood floats, so a ship with wood in it can never sink

[@michaelsommers2356]

Tell that to the crews of _Mary Rose_ and _Vasa._

[@danh6720]

So the New Jersey weighs the same as a witch?

[@theodored1623]

@@danh6720 That's a funny way to spell duck

[@mikeayers8951]

Witches weigh the same as ducks. That's how you know that they're made of wood and thusly burn.

[@shalishaska6636]

You just switch to reserve buoyancy 😂😂

[@bryancarpenter6848]

I remember putting up several of those boxes and surprised to see some are still in place. IC3 Carpenter

[@Vinemaple]

I come back from my walk, and there's a new BBNJ video waiting for me! What a nice welcome! I used to have difficulty dealing with topside temperatures on the support ships I worked on, too cold in Scotland, too hot and humid in the tropics. Then I realized it was because the ships' climate control was usually set to the opposite extreme. So I would make my stateroom just slightly uncomfortably close to the topside temperature, and acclimate to that, then add or remove layers both to go topside or to hang out in the common areas of the ship. In Guam I'd keep it a bit too warm in my room, and put on a jacket to go to the mess deck. In Scotland, I'd keep it a bit too cool, and take off my sweater to go eat. The unauthorized mod part of this comes in when I was on an AKE in the tropics. To get my room a little warmer than ship's climate control, I'd have to remove an overhead panel and partially close my stateroom's fire damper. I never felt like I was getting less oxygen, but I assume I probably was. Fortunately, you could set that lever wherever you wanted, it wasn't an open/shut control. I wouldn't have dared to close it off completely!

[@CybershamanX]

I love examining old newspapers used for packing/stuffing. Do you guys ever check the date on such things if you ever open one up? It's like a little time capsule of things people were concerned about at the time. 😎☮️

[@57thorns]

One the other hand, as they use it now and the ship is quite, you _need_ the mufflers.

[@SeanBZA]

Old building I was looking under the bath tub, and there was old newspaper packing up a hole, along with an old sewing kit. Newspapers were from 1939, when the building was built. Removed to fix a leak, and did not put them back, rather used some caulking compound, so as to at least ensure a future leak would not be a worry.

[@crbielert]

that is fun, found some old papers and a ww2 ration book once behind a cabinet. Looked like someone hid it or it slipped behind something. I bet they were pissed all those years ago if it wasn't intentional

[@zspud21]

On my ship we had an issue with departments disabling the 1MC. Particularly in obscure workspaces where many would sleep. I can remember only 2 times we actual made the Man Overboard drill time of 15 minutes. The time very frequently exceeded 45 minutes

[@Vinemaple]

Horrifying but understandable. I think in actuality, the 1MC was probably part of that problem

[@dustinhale4337]

I don't remember having a man overboard drill over 20 minutes on a carrier except when their was an actual man overboard. That includes tiger cruises. I cannot imagine being part of McHale's navy and taking that long for a man overboard drill.

[@lewisdoherty7621]

I was in an office building which didn't have a system to allow the staff to adjust the thermostat to make it cooler since it was all controlled by a computer. There were tempreture sensors all over the building. So I put a bookshelf under my local sensor and since there were coffee machines, I would fill a cup with hot water and place it under the sensor. The heat rose and the computer directed more cooling into the area.

[@oliverscratch]

A university building where I worked had that type of system. To keep heating costs down the building temp was set rather low in the winter. A cup filled with ice and suspended over the sensor warmed my classroom quite nicely.

[@peterkoch3777]

The solution to this problem is giving each employee a thermostat to regulate his personal space... which does nothing😂

[@jblyon2]

@@peterkoch3777 My college had that. Initially when they put in their newer control system they started ripping out the old pneumatic thermostats. People started complaining that they couldn't control the temperature, as each room had a non-adjustable sensor. They ended up leaving the rest of the pneumatic thermostats, hooking most of the ones they had removed back up, and kept that system running so that you'd hear hissing/suction when you adjusted the temperature, even though that thermostat no longer controlled anything. This stopped almost all of the complaints. The rooms that did need the capability for adjustment did eventually get temperature sensors that could be adjusted I believe 3 degrees F either way from the normal set point. In the dorms we'd put an incandescent bulb up to the temp sensor in the warmer weather and strap a frozen water bottle onto it in the winter to get the desired amount of heat/AC.

[@JoshuaTootell]

As an HVAC tech, you'd be amazed at the stupidity. It's amazing how many problems I solve (that didn't exist) just by saying "I made a few tuning adjustments" @@peterkoch3777

[@jfbeam]

We did something like that in high school. (light bulb) Until a maintenance tech from the county came to find out why the electronics lab was always 150F.

[@IMRROcom]

We had the Classic Foam Padding on the top threshold of low passages/hatch with the classic picture of a "Duck". Most of the time is was a Mallard Duck.

[@rickswanberg4995]

The comms shack I used to work in was the first stop on the a/c run, the thermostat was near the end of the run where the Chief Engineer worked so you could easily hang meat in my area. Black plastic bags above the diffusers helped a lot. The only thing I didn't plug was the vents inside the racks with the radios. Occasionally people would come in and see me wrapped in a packing blanket with only the bill of my cap and eyes visible.

[@dustinhale4337]

This is still a very common modification, but with different materials. Since the military now has a constant supply7 stream of cardboard for general use set up to be delivered by amazon, packing tape and cardboard are the preferred material for this mod. Fun fact, ship's company liked to raid the squadron berthing and admin spaces for 1MCs with adjustable volume leaving us with the preset loud 1MCs necessitating the modifications for survival. This is probably the second most common mod on a CVN though. The most common by far had to be covering up vents to stop spaces from freezing out. Aircon that is too good is a real first world CVN problem though that likely doesn't effect too many other vessels.

[@MatthewMakesAU]

Nuclear powered ships have nuclear powered air conditioning

[@5695q]

My shop on the Nimitz suffered from that, no way to control the freezing air the chillers were putting out, could have hung meat in there for the whole cruise with no spoilage.

[@robsvideos13]

I put a splitter in the TV antenna cable going to the weird room TV - had a 12" B&W TV in my state room! Watch local TV channels and NMPS movies from the VCR in the radio room... almost like home on a USCG WLB

[@rodneyowen1850]

I had a cubicle with the opening and hallway directly behind my back whiel I was working. I bought a large framed mirror and hung it on the cubicle wall above my computer. I could see whoever was coming up the hallway long before they could see what I was doing, and I didn't even have to move!

[@gillespiejason4554]

A Lot of locomotives have paper towels taped over the speakers above the Engineer and conductor. 80 years later with the same problem.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

I’ve seen something similar on a different navy ship where an excessively loud speaker in an electrical shop had its horn stuffed with rags to muffle the volume.

[@alanbrown9178]

Ex RN here. RN practice was to have two seperate broadcast systems. The "Main Broadcast" was fixed and could not be turned off. This was for all command orders, whether at sea or alongside. The other system was referred to as the "SRE", Sound Reproduction equipment, IIRC. It was used for informal events, such as music, quizes etc. It could be adjusted for volume, or switched off completely. These were only fitted in the mess-decks.

[@davidschick6951]

I often cry when I hear To The Colors. I know morning colors is usually at 0800 local but I hope Battleship New Jersey has colors after the ship has opened for the day.

[@charlesflorence2843]

I never added a wood box but when the 1 MC died in my sheetmetal shop on LPH-2 Iwo Jima I threw on a work belt stuffed a few important looking tools in it and headed down to Marine berthing. Grabbed a chair and started to remove their 1MC. The Marine weren't very happy about that because our ship would broadcast music over the 1MC in a few spaces. They wanted to know why I was taking their only entertainment, I told them the other channels weren't working and I needed to fix them. Installed their working unit in my shop and spend the rest of the cruise answering Marines questions about when their speaker would be fixed. My answer was always you know how slow the supply system is... think I might need to go to confession and ask for forgiveness for that one.

[@dustinhale4337]

Ah, so you were one of those selfish shoes that thought the world revolved around you. Without folks like you making other people's lives worse for your own entertainment deployments would have been awesome. You could have fixed the problem, but no, better to serve yourself and screw over someone else, right BF? Thanks for being one of the people making the military awful for people just trying to do their job.

[@SeanBZA]

Should have ordered a few boxes of crayons......

[@KenR1800]

The break room in the place where I work is always very cold. They have a clear lockbox over the thermostat. I usually work on Saturdays when nobody else is in there. So to adjust the temperature, I took an ice block from my lunch bag and placed it on top of the lockbox. In 5 minutes or less, presto the a/c is switched off.

[@sheila9358]

we need an unauth ship mod video…go from mod to mod!

[@DaveDaDeerslayer]

It's not an unauthorized shipalt if it looks like it should be there and no one notices. I've done lots. FCC(SW) Ret

[@vrod665]

Cardboard ducts in radio for tempalt equipment. My equipment produced an extreme amount of heat that couldn’t be dissipated through the boats normal aircon blasting. So, I would always make cardboard/EB Green (think gorilla tape) ductwork from a useless atmospheric/circulating to the back of my gear. Worked like a Lucky Charm.

[@kingofthepod5169]

One mod I made to my workplace is I added a holster to my MIG welder for the spool gun. Miller didn't do this from the factory, and a replacement spool gun (spoolmatic 30A) is like $2000.

[@dorsk84]

We have speakers at my work too. In the back room they ziptied 2 insulated bags over the PA. We HAD one in one of the walk-ins (super loud for no reason), it don't work any more.. don't know why😉

[@leftyo9589]

kept my 1MC tuned up. more than once got yelled at to turn it down because the admiral across the base knew when the captain was coming, and going from the ship!

[@SkillIssuedCatto_YT]

It's probably a prototype for beer and hotdog holders on ships. Great when swabbing the floors and during rough waters.

[@randelbrooks]

Very interesting

[@Fred70115]

My best alteration was to complete my enlistment and get as far away from the Navy as possible. I made it to Iowa for three years.

[@m1ndphaser]

if it's a simple transducer speaker, it seems a simple in-line resistor to raise the impedance would work or a speaker level variable potentiometer with a big knob that could be poked out thru a hole in the speaker housing. I've used that on my own speakers I've built to easily trim the volume of the driver. of course that would involve installing that directly on the wire going to the driver and that is likely a big super no-no on a ship lol. but this is super cool tho, these brute tweaks that apparently work!

[@kevincrosby1760]

Your speakers probably were not part of a 25V or 70V amplified PA system. Some 1MC speakers did have a built-in volume control as you described. In general, if a box-type speaker didn't have a manual volume control, then it had a multi-tap transformer where you could adjust the volume in broad steps by changing which tap was in use.

[@turnbullfl4114]

That potentiometer you speak of is called an"L-Pad". Very special type used in conjunction with a multitap line transformers to control volume on large public address systems.

[@SeanBZA]

@@turnbullfl4114 Yes and generally you land up with all the L pads turned to minimum, and the amplifier turned to max, cooking both the L pads and the amplifier. I installed one at the old office, and used the 100V line output from the PA amplifier, and set the levels to match at the speakers. Then, once it was tested and working, took the amplifier, marked the pot positions, and opened it up. Disconnected the pots, and measured resistance of each half, and then put another pot inside, that was set to be identical. Stuck them down with some tape, and closed it up. Now the operators could fiddle all they wanted, no change in settings. Same on machines with heaters and external thermostats, they went internal.

[@turnbullfl4114]

You have tweaked a distant memory that says L-Pads are only to be installed on a few speakers within the system for that very reason. @@SeanBZA

[@tannerhawes6890]

Hey Ryan! This video made me curious, are there any videos that you've done that discuss the startup procedure for the boilers and turbines? I'd love to learn about what it takes to get the ship from cold to full power.

[@Bum-gh2zi]

Back in 1997 dry dock for CG-62 some new squid wall lockers made their way to the lower level port side of the fwd VLS so we could have some storage. Neither confirm nor deny that some holes in the outer bulkhead angle irons may have ended up with holes for the bolts to pass thru so that they could be mounted.

[@MichaelMientus]

The two senior technicians were sharing one desk overnight cheek by jowl. I took a bank of filing cabinets out of the cubicle so we had room to put our legs under the desk.

[@mikepickell8792]

I want to run my Discman in my rack but needed an outlet, had a small florescent light that I tapped into. I was an EM.

[@henrycarlson7514]

Interesting , Thank You

[@richmcmahon2452]

I wasn't a snipe, so never saw one of those on the ships I sailed on, but I can understand it. We had the ability to control the volume of the 1MC and bitch boxes in our spaces. My brother sailed on ballistic missile subs, boomers, that have two crews. He said they would stuff the chaff from hole punches into the diving alarm speaker in the sonar space as a present for the other crew. When they took the boat out and dove for the first time, they'd get a paper snow fall. It is never a bad time to mess with your friends.

[@stevenwalters3639]

Having an ambulance with broken ac in the back I would use puke bags to make a tube to direct cool air from the from to the back.

[@imark7777777]

I highly suspect that it's just a really powerful 70V PA distribution system. With multiple zones. And maybe multiple zone amplifiers. They had probably too many speakers tapped too high on the original system and it was overheating the amplifier. Usually those systems have a transformer that can be tapped up or down to adjust the volume level in each room assuming they don't have a volume control which selects the different taps at the device itself. There's usually like a few increments of how many watts. And this is different from a volume control on a stereo or like which is logarithmic, that will be smooth as you turn it whereas if it's steps it's a multi position switch selecting between different tabs usually. So yeah the obvious way is to cover it unless you're really nice to your communications officer and like. They might be able to get some resistors or change the tabs.

[@Shouganaigarage]

Not a ship but we’d cut water bottles and tape them end to end to fabricate an AC duct to our individual racks in our tents in Kuwait. If you had a bunk bed and specifically bottom bunk, wrap your poncho liner around the sides to make an igloo. 😂

[@bigsarge2085]

OIF 07-09, at FOB Huriyyah 2 (some Iraqi Ministry of Trade warehouses with Texas T's around it, some concrete towers, and makeshift gates, our platoon was housed in two medium sized rooms), I paid our platoon medic (he knew carpentry as well) to build me a TV stand from scrap, bought a power converter and a large CRT tv, acquired the Company dvd player, a lawn chair, a huge pillow I got from somewhere, and headphones, and arranged it all along with my bunk to accommodate my little home-away-from-home. We weren't "authorized" to do stuff like that, but I wasn't going to spend 13 months as an infantryman at our forward FOB without some creature comforts. No one ever said anything to me about it either, nor did anyone else in the entire company (B Co. 1/502) try a similar approach, I was the only one. Inevitably, if I was out on patrol or whatever, I'd come back and dudes would be gathered around my (for Iraq) large tv. I didn't mind, and they'd leave if I wanted to watch something myself. That's my unauthorized alt.

[@johnn8223]

I was kind of hoping for a reenactment of the "WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!?!?" scene from Se7en for an intro, honestly.

[@PraxZimmerman]

Lol I used concrete form tubes to duct my air conditioning right onto my bed. Landlord is gonna flip if she ever sees it 😅

[@timengineman2nd714]

I always wood stuff a few rags into the speaker's bell...

[@danielpittman889]

Aft main machinery room on LHA-2 had a shower stall and stackable washer/dryer next to some oil pumps.

[@edwardrhoades6957]

Only place I can think of would be in that space off the burnerfront where the FOSPs were, anywhere else would be in the open. (I was Aft MMR on LHA-4)

[@danielpittman889]

@@edwardrhoades6957 It's been a while (mid 90s), but I think the W/D was near the big electrical panels and the shower was over by the crossover steam pipe. Man if I still had my notebook of drawings I could tell you exactly where we had it. When were you on Nassau?

[@edwardrhoades6957]

@@danielpittman889 August 02 to March 07

[@wfoj21]

Humm. These speakers are also how the general quarters/NBC or CBR alarms are heard around the ship.

[@Vinemaple]

I expect the boxes would be taken off while under way, or at least while operating. At least if the crew working there were smart. That strap looks to be part of an easy-on, easy-off design. This would mainly be for when the machinery was off and the speakers didn't need to be so loud.

[@coolsnake1134]

As an electrician My away from my house office is my vehicle and I have installed a few aftermarket upgrades to make life easier, I have a GMRS / UHF/VHF radio system, I have led warning lights for when I'm on the side of the road, and i have a safe built into the center console so I can stash valuables like cash or a handgun, I even have a concealed rifle rack that I installed that I can secure a full auto m16. Because not only is my vehicle my mobile office but it's also my mobile command center just in case something goes south. And in my state we are allowed to carry fully automatic weapons in our vehicles if we have a valid concealed handgun license

[@coolsnake1134]

Not technically unauthorized because it's my own vehicle and state / local laws are all followed but definitely not intended by the vehicle manufacturer to have it outfitted the way that I did.

[@kingofthepod5169]

​@@coolsnake1134 that's probably the coolest trade van I've heard of. Assuming it's a van of course.

[@beefgoat80]

I was a longtime Whole Foods employee, and a couple of years after Amazon took over (also after Amazon incrementally took more and more benefits away), one of my coworkers put up a portrait of Bezos in the CS office with "our lord and savior" above his head. It was entirely sarcastic, of course. One day, I couldn't help myself, and I wrote "I eat boogers!!!" on the portrait. While my boss thought it was hilarious, that had apparently crossed the line, and it was taken down. Yeah, I no longer work for WFM. Amazon really sucked the life out of that place.

[@You-Know-Youre-Right]

I tried being a dishwasher for WFM, barely lasted a month the workload was too intense and I was the only one cleaning dishes for the entire store

[@beefgoat80]

@@You-Know-Youre-Right prepared foods was the one department I never ever offered to help out when they were short. Not because I found the work beneath me or anything like that, but because I knew the workload y'all had to deal with. Prep foods were the first people in the door before the store opened, and the last to leave after the store closed. Everyone always had a scowl on their faces whenever I went through the kitchens to get to the back of the store.

[@Kraeftling]

I remember our Leopard 2 tank crew talking about taking an NBC filter out of the air supply and replacing it with a box of beer cans to cool it with the airflow.

[@dukeofgibbon4043]

I put carbon fiber panels around my monitor to block out LED light glare. Wish I'd done the black whole desk mousepad sooner.

[@rachelcarre9468]

Boring question Ryan but how do the turbogenerators connect? Do they synchronise or do they each power separate buses? i ask because I used to work somewhere with 4 generators running separately and it became tricky if one failed.

[@michaeltreen8785]

Question. How much cash was kept on board in its ww2 prime?

[@andrewallen9993]

In the Royal Navy the tannoys have volume controls.

[@bebo4807]

When the USS Connecticut was decommissioned one of these wooden boxes was found to contain the desiccated remains of an Ensign who had gone missing in 1977.

[@WardenWolf]

Couldn't have been Connecticut. The current USS Connecticut is a Seawolf-class submarine. The immediate previous USS Connecticut was a pre-dreadnought battleship decommissioned in 1923.

[@cmsracing]

My rack was under the crew's head, and the deck leaked, I made a tent like structure out of plastic to direct the CHT over to one side of my rack and allowed it to drip into the bile. USS Adroit MSO 509.

[@MarkJoseph81]

So then would they remove the covers when it was noisy in there? Combat etc

[@kennethjohnson4280]

I used to run the IC shop on several navy ships. I hated when would stuff rags in the 1MC speakers. It caused feed back into the 1MC system and would damage the amplifiers. But sailors are gonna sailor so what are ya gonna do.

[@flashgordon6238]

Folks in the office were always complaining about the lack of heat, so they installed four new thermostats at various places. Complaints stopped after that. Guys would turn down the heat, gals would turn up the heat. 10 years later I was helping the Environmental Engineering tech in the attic and he showed me where the computerized system controlled the heat via sensors in the ducting. I asked about the role of the thermostats on the walls. He said those were dummy thermostats and showed me the power wires to each thermostat came from a wall adapter in the attic. No connection to the HVAC system and he swore me to secrecy.

[@jkilby27able]

👍👍👍👍

[@imark7777777]

OK I have one. My mom was teaching a sort of summer school class thing to kids and it was on constellations. I was volunteered to help. we printed off constellations and put them on to thicker card stock and poked holes through and shove them into an old slide projector, this worked perfect and I then became the projector operator. However that is not the reason I'm commenting. That's just the backstory. The day of this came and we were scattered throughout the school with different zones that the kids would go-between in groups.… all was going good.... Until we found out that they were testing the fire alarms which later we found out was supposed to be at the other school building but they mixed them up and they were still doing it anyway. and this involved heading to main fire alarm control system test button walking to EACH location yep alarms going off, lights going off, walking back, reset alarm, rinse and repeat for every alarm sounder and light in the entire effing building!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one class they were sharing cotton balls and shoving them into everybody's ears, but that was also a class that was just doing like arts and crafts things so there wasn't really a listen to teacher moment. I was in the band room a fully concrete wall room on all sides Super reflective. And we had mostly been reprieved for the most part and could shut the door and we only had one alarm in the room. I built up a few dozen layers of clear packing tape and I wrote remove after Test or some thing and slapped that thing over the alarm and beautiful silence or close to it. That is until the test group got around to this room they promptly removed it and they weren't to happy, when they came back 10 minutes later there was another stack right back up there! Yes I understand testing the system but at this level it should not have been done with anybody in the building as the levels of sound pressure we're in the dangerous territory for extended periods of time. OSHA has requirements on safe volume levels for working environments which they even themselves break the rule with death-defying reverse beepers. Yeah I do Sound and I care about my hearing we were totally exceeding those levels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're not meant to stay in a room when the fire alarm goes off you're supposed to leave (you know cause there might be a fire!), so you're not exposed to the ridiculous levels that are set.

[@imark7777777]

I might've even threaten the guy that it might've come off the wall at some point. I have a screwdriver and I know how to use it and how un-use it.

[@196cupcake]

You should do a video of "top 5 unauthorized mods." Or, maybe a playlist with all of the videos that are about modifications.

[@c.a.mcdivitt9722]

Just watching now... in terms of unauthorized mods, um ... my house started out as a postwar chicken coop.

[@davethesatellite7319]

in a kinda crappy 2nd floor apartment with relatively poor insulation between floors... made modified vent diffusers that are plugged because it gets so hot up here.

[@vevenaneathna]

used to basically live in a study room in the med student lounge at school for the first 2 years of didactics. the room i picked was previously part of the hallway that they ended early and converted into a small room. it still had one of those LCD screens that would restart at random times and show announcements that the school must of forgot. no way to turn it off. I used to use one of those "neon sign high voltage testers" to basically glitch out the board and keep it powered down while the system thought it was running. could turn off all the lights in there and get some sleep. i didnt realize it but the night security team thought I was a ghost coz they didnt realize that it was a room and part of the med student lounge. there was a student who had passed away the year that i started and they had like a little shrine type thing and his picture and white coat in the public kitchen area of the med student lounge and I guess he looked like me. I used to be up all night studying in there and would go out for periodic smoke breaks and I guess the route I took just wasnt on any of the cameras since I used a closer stairwell/fire escape few people used. after 2 years one of the night security guards worked up the courage to find me smoking and asked me where I went every day. they never saw me on the cameras, they only saw me pass by randomly at night from the other end of hallways, and no one could ever find me when they did their security sweeps at night, and I would just randomly appear and disappear without any cars in the parking lot since I parked a few blocks away for free parking. Idk why but i found it funny when the security guard walked up and asked me if I was a ghost and then I had to show him the house I basically made in that room over the years lol. we had 24/7 access to the building and lounge to study so it wasnt a big deal, and they were cool about all the random hallway furniture I had moved in there like end tables, sofa type chairs with desk attachments, and a big flat couch I would convert into a bed some nights. in retrospect I really could have not paid for an apartment those 2 years.

[@oleran4569]

Could that have become a "break room" after you left? I worked in a fairly large hospital where the transport and maintenance crews had a few of those special rooms.

[@vevenaneathna]

@@oleran4569 well they moved the medstudent lounged to another building so i am not sure. wouldnt supprize me lol

[@blue387]

Idea for a video: please discuss Operation Crossroads and the navy sinking ships at Bikini Atoll Edit: could battleship NJ have survived the nuclear blasts?

[@carltornblom3648]

In my experience, that wood isn't painted but rather it has been treated with a fire-resistant chemical. The plywood used in and around Drydocks at PSNS is like this when used as containment or temp shelter construction.

[@tedwpx123]

Show the engineering escape trunk sometime

[@gregcollins3404]

so modify the loadspeaker by putting a resistor in series with its coil...

[@WardenWolf]

Resistors convert voltage and current to heat. You're asking for trouble if you don't have a good way to get rid of said heat. Of course, simply using the ship's steel as a heatsink would work, but you'd need a resistor with a built-in heatsink.

[@mxslick50]

That won't work on a 70 or 100v system, which the 1-MC most likely is. Those systems depend on tapped transformers at each speaker to control volume. It ignores resistive loads. (The system drives power by higher voltage and a load impedance as low as.5 ohms, a regular amplifier pushes current through a small range of allowable speaker impedance. A resistor WILL work with conventional amplifiers. (edited to fix 1-MC)

[@robertkelley3437]

I stacked rolls of toilet paper in front of the bosses observation camera that he put in the lab. It was taking up the limited shelf space. I put a lockbox over the thermostat to the office to stop everyone from messing with it.

[@QMore-fp7wn]

I taught at a school that had an assistant principal that had the loudest and most irritating voice on the 1MC. I packed the speaker box in my classroom with foam padding to muffle her voice. My students used to have to cover their ears she was so loud.

[@billping2633]

What’s in the box? What was in the box?

[@pepperjack6421]

We low key still do this.

[@tomyorke3412]

So there not bee hives?

[@motomuto3313]

I added short pieces of hose to every mop sink I've ever used.

[@electriccoconut]

What is the box on the wall ? It's a speaker ! Thanks.

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

Hmmmm…so they navy used a system similar to the one I use in my books….fancy that

[@jstrat121]

Its actually “ Davie Jones Locker”

[@mongoose388]

We used to just stuff cleaning rags inside them.

[@robertsandersfeld8819]

Cheese cloth on the air vents to filter the air. Dust control in arabian gulf

[@npsit1]

It seems likely that the speakers may be connected at different impedances which will change the volume of a speaker that doesn't have a volume control built in. many of them have a transformer on the back where a different impedance can be selected by moving the wires. Volume controls would be easy to add, probably. Also It could be part of the reason why the system would overheat as it's trying to drive so many speakers rated at different impedances - and just a large number of them - which it wasn't designed properly to do. Modern MOSFET amplifiers should be able to resolve a problem like that as well.

[@imark7777777]

I set up a 70V PA system at a church two different zones. one really cheap amp ran everything really well the more expensive one tripped the safety no matter what I did ended up switching them around just couldn't get that thing to not be overloaded. I changed all the tabs on all the speakers down to the minimum amount.

[@mxslick50]

@@imark7777777 If the amp wasn't specifically rated for direct 70v outputs, it's because a normal amp drives with current, and a 70v amp drives with voltage. (Of course there is still a relation in both cases, but it is which one is most important in that application.) For example, I use QSC CX series amps for my motocross announcing. I have the schematics for both the CX302 (2ch, 300w per) and the CX302V (2ch, 300w per at 70v) The schematics are IDENTICAL, with the exception of the driver and output stages. The 302 has 4 transistors per channel, the 302v has two per channel, and they are different types. 302 drives more current at 4-8 ohm loads, the 302V can handle impedances down to .5ohms and still stay in operation.

[@imark7777777]

@@mxslick50 yeah, voltage rather than current the whole 70V system is amazing and crazy. But it's not that much of a difference from power transmission in a way. That's interesting that the QSC's were almost identical on the schematics I have always wondered that. let's see it was a few years back like 2016? oh I have my original upgrade quot cool. I want to say the sanctuary head 6-8 speakers and the lobby head 6+ outfront + hallway backrooms so 12? The back office used to be a tanning salon and they had 4x non-70V normal 8ohm speakers in the ceiling, I parallel series them and ordered a 70V transformer. Originally I had the Rolls RA170 70W feeding the lobby, and the wonderful RadioShack rebranded Pyle 40-Watt PA Amplifier Cat# 32-2054 (oh how I miss RadioShack) feeding the sanctuary. It kept tripping the safety on the 70W so for troubleshooting i swapped it for the 40W and no issues at all. I think we still ended up with issues on the Rolls unit and at some point I swapped them back and found out that I could use a normal amp in bridge mode and switched in one of our spare Samson 300's (any amp over 100-200W-ish). The idea was on the divider wall of the booth was a 3.5MM cable and small passive mixer would let you choose between mobile device or CD/DVD or iTunes on the Mac and then there was a switch next to that to turn on either amp depending on what room you wanted BGM music in negating the need to turn on the entire sound system mixer etc. But then on Sunday we would leave the sanctuary system off and use the full Soundsystem and take a feed from the soundboard into the mixer into the lobby app for Services. The system worked really good once I got it going, I even installed volume controls in the back rooms on the walls. I started out with a home theater amplifier ("use this") that I somehow made work barely and I had to rewire and we can figure all the ceiling speakers because they were a mess from the place previously being a arcade games entertainment pool table type place. That was a fun place. Built out the entire Sound booth video production and distributed TV system even some of the electrical. Had somebody buy us a used soundboard off eBay without asking that worked for a few years and then developed issues, then again Peavy is known for their amplifiers not mixers. Replaced it with the 24 channel personas when it came out that was a big purchase. I came in for band practice on Thursday and something didn't sound right only to find out the tweeters were blown in the main speakers, ordered new drivers and had them replaced a week later. Would love to know how that happened. I was always struggling to do most of these things with no help running service and slides with a couple volunteers. Only to get told I didn't know what I was doing, where I decided after the hour long meeting about how I couldn't do anything right it was time to leave the volunteered position. At a previous church they had a really really really really old fake woodgrain 70V amplifier from RadioShack that finally bit the dust, I got to take it home and tear it apart after it let the magic smoke out literally during service. They had way more speakers and after that they replaced it with a rack mount amplifier much more powerful. Which sent me down the journey of learning how these things work. 25V/70V/100V PA systems are interesting I've read quite a bit of material online about them and various manuals. it's interesting that there's almost not a lot of information about them, although that was a few years back and every so often I find a little tidbit here or there that's new.

[@spiffinz]

What's with the wooden boxes? "Don't look at them."

[@jimwjohnq.public]

No rooms on a ship. Just spaces, compartments, tanks and voids.

[@gordonking4360]

1 MC would shock the crap out of you.

[@dsan94]

Me: removing the ignition CBs on jets because they are so loud they make for an obnoxious workspace.

[@kenknerr7226]

EEBD

[@fuiehfjfcnsl]

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[@matthunter1424]

wow, 7 minutes to tell me it's an attenuator...

[@Name-ot3xw]

I'm guessing to store items that sparks tend to excite. or some sailor's stash box. Completely wrong, they're for better ignoring orders.

[@asn413]

alumium foil on the windows. g'nite

[@Olebull93]

It's a transaction box disguised as a muffler for the speaker. You put $5 inn it at the start of your watch and when you are finished you will find $5 of weed inn it. It's all hush hush ofc.

[@TheTransporter007]

Ryan, your camera lens is pretty seriously filthy. Might want to sort that out.

[@gregghull1518]

Way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth I was an AT in IM3 Div aboard Nimitz. Our night check birthing was on the 01-level immediately forward of the Pearly Gates in the "Tube" and just 1 deck above the bulk of the electronics shops - all the 65x/69x shops, Cal-Lab, etc. - so the AC was insanely cold to keep all those SASE benches cool. (Yes , I said "SASE" benches...I told you this was a long time ago; it was the best that John Paul Jones could secure funding for from the stingey Continental Congress) Now, this is awesome if you're a 6th Fleeter as the average temperature in the Med is roughly the melting point of lead, but not so great to sleep in if you're in a top rack with a register 6" from your head and blasting gale-force into your face, especially since we were already just 40' below the #2 waist cat. Also, due to naval engineering genius, at least in our birthing, the temperature may have been sub-arctic up near the lagging but just 4' lower, near the deck, it was like a sweat-box on a Louisiana prison farm so the bottom rack slobs were constantly roasting in their own juices. There must've been a 30° temp differential top to bottom. (I can hear it now, "BUH! But cold air sinks and hot air rises! BUH!" Don't bitch to me, I don't know why it was like that, it just was. Take it up with thermal dynamics.) By the end of that cruise, and after a nearly miraculous demonstration of ACTUAL cooperation by all the squids in the birthing space, we had probably 150' of makeshift ducting redirecting all that polar air into all the right spots and somehow we nailed it; it was a very comfortable 69° almost everywhere except near the two knee-knockers and the door to the head, (Oh yeah, we had our own head!) and no one was getting face-blasted. We used aluminum sheet and cardboard for the actual ducting, bubblewrap for insulation, (somebody knew an HT and he told us to do that) about a zillion miles of vulcanizing rubber tape and 100mph tape to seal everything, and safety wire for "hangers." It was impressive enough that when our notoriously humorless XO saw it during a mid-cruise CAMSI inspection (think: INSURG) he actually let us keep it up and complimented one of our branch cheifs for having such "industrious and innovative" squids. Little did he know that our little project probably represented a couple thousand dollars of misappropriated federal funds. 😁 "Thanks CDR Nutwell, wherever you are!"

[@battleshipnewjerseysailor4738]

We didn't allow WOODEN boxes in the FIREroom, ehhem, for obvious reasons