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American Scout C-2 Cargo Ship by Sterling Models

Vfordyce said:
I have to post it on my phone. Then I have to go back to my computer to make the images rotate to where they're supposed to be. They look better now that they're not upside down, Paul. You and Kurt really responded fast! Are you on vacation or something?
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Once a month we work late on Thursday nights - no work the next day... :)
 
The thickness of the wood is not consistent. I wonder if I shouldn’t use this as a template and cut out a single piece from bass wood that I bought from the store; otherwise, I’ll have a couple of ridges that are quite visible image.jpg
 
Here’s the smokestack. I’ve never been on one of these ships so I don’t know what they really look like. Are they just a hollow metal shell, or is there more substance to them? I thought about wrapping the stack with a sheet of copper or something if it’s supposed to be hollow. Otherwise I’ll just have to paint the top black and pretend it’s hollow. image.jpg
 
the funnel is actually a tube within a tube. look at the AKA-107 USS Vermilion Booklet of General Plans 1968 link i posted at about pg 2 or 3 of this thread & look at Sheet 4 - Inboard Profile that shows what i am talking about.
 
Davidp said:
the funnel is actually a tube within a tube. look at the AKA-107 USS Vermilion Booklet of General Plans 1968 link i posted at about pg 2 or 3 of this thread & look at Sheet 4 - Inboard Profile that shows what i am talking about.
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David, I see the tube within the tube. I’m wondering if the top is covered over for everything but the inner tube. (Just saying that reminds me of tubing down the Comal River in the summer.) When I look at many other ships, it seems like there is a flat surface on top of the funnel, and there are other things attached to that surface.
 
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looking at the inboard drawing, it makes it appear as tho the funnel top is covered except for the inner tube.
 
By the time that these ships were built steam turbines paired with water tube boilers were mature technology and Marine Engineers had figured out how to capture and utilize waste heat. A major heat loss was the hot gas from combustion that escaped up the stack. These stacks were therefore lined with heat exchangers that used hot stack gas to heat boiler feed water and or combustion air. If fitted with an air heater there might be an opening somewhere to serve as an air inlet. In either case there wold be a lid at the top of the stack with a smaller diameter smoke pipe passing through.

Roger
 
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