Do you have any diagrams of the mechanical fire
control computers?
I have access to the maintenance manuals for the later (ca.1940) types,
but they are very thick books jammed with drawings. Copying one would be a
real chore. Next time I am in Fall River I can see what I can find in
terms of drawings of the "big picture".
The computers have _thousands_ of precision moving parts. The nice thing
is that they never broke. I am sure that one could lube up various bits of
one today and it would perfectly. One, a torpedo data computer on the
Submarine Pampanito, has gotten this treatment and does in fact work just
as it did 50 years ago.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net