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For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/24/2011 5:58:21 PM

mdiehl

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You too can build your own BB. Battleship gun tubes from the USS New Jersey may be purchased from the US Gov't. Each weighs 3.36 million pounds and comes with its' own rail freight cradle. You have to ship it though.

http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=4363825&tid=GLSPPS7081&cm_mmc=Email-_-ia8069-_-2011-04-25-_-8069_8930

Scrapping those things will take a small army of guys with cutting torches, I suspect.

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/24/2011 6:02:48 PM

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Just in time for the shopping season. And such a deal!

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/24/2011 6:10:24 PM

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Still trying to sell those rifles? Just in time for deer season. Maybe I could swap out my .30-06 barrel.

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/24/2011 6:25:45 PM

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I only wish.

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/24/2011 6:27:07 PM

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Will they ship to Europe ?

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/24/2011 7:42:14 PM

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Yeah, somebody posted these about a year ago. Still not sold? I wonder how long before the bank forecloses and takes them back....

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/26/2011 8:19:40 PM

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Can somebody tell me if I can mount them on a 16' bass boat?

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/26/2011 8:41:04 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: mdiehl

You too can build your own BB. Battleship gun tubes from the USS New Jersey may be purchased from the US Gov't. Each weighs 3.36 million pounds and comes with its' own rail freight cradle. You have to ship it though.

I thought 14,000 tons more or less was a bit excessive for a barrel. The RFP is for 14ea barrels of 237,000 lbs each. Still pretty big, but one of these won't roll the ship over like Flipper.

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/27/2011 11:00:09 PM

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Probably. I want to experiment first by strapping one on to a dolphin.

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/28/2011 7:41:49 AM

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Pavement Roller? One pass and your done.

Cut into 10' lengths, fill with explosive, put a laser guided nose and tail works on the thing and use it to blow up deep bunkers, hardened missile sites and the odd ant hill in the desert.

Leak info to North Korea that we are selling them to South Korea for their new Battleship.

Cut down a large redwood tree and fashion it into a stock for it and make a large deer rifle.

Bridge supports?

What else can they be used for......

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/28/2011 8:53:25 AM

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... Water slides for kids or scrawny folks.

Plop them vertically at a harbour entrance, put some lights on em and you have a channel marker

Impressive lawn ornament

Worlds largest potato cannon...

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RE: For sale: USN 16" BB gun tubes - 10/29/2011 7:05:36 AM

rockmedic109

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The next winner of the Pumkin Chunkin contest!

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