Never Before Seen: 16" Gun Turret ROLLERS MOVING
Battleship USS IOWA Museum
What we have here is a 2,000 ton chunk on steel sitting on top of the some of the biggest Timken Tapered Roller Bearings in the world.
It's one thing to see the ship floating in the water, sailing the seas, firing its guns, and then you start looking at drawings and animations and I'm thinking that's pretty cool. Then you go inside with these guys and you get an entirely different picture. It's kind of nuts.
These museum folks have a bunch more videos of the inner workings of the ship. However, the link listed just below the video is 404. Weird. Anyway, I just watched three of them. You need to be careful, you fall in, you might never find your way out.
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