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Individual Submarine Boards => USS Drum (SS-228) => Topic started by: Lance Dean on March 26, 2008, 08:51:22 PM
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Here's a pic I took of the Drum's bell. Tom I forgot to ask if this is the original bell?
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As far as I know, never had asked about.
Tom
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As far as I know, never had asked about.
Tom
Not really something anyone would question. :) I'd assume it is. Just wondered about it as I was going through pictures.
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Sure is a nice bell. It does look different than other fleet boat bells. but that can be attributed to several factors: DRUM was built before wartime restrictions so its bell might be more spiffy (lines around circumference) than later bells. It was not an EB boat (EB bells in later GATOs were plain Janes by comparison), it had a significant career and somewhere along the line it may have been plated, as were some later bells. Fact is, with the cost os such things and the act that all the money traditionally went to the BB, you can be pretty sure nobody in AL would have likely spent the big bucks to replicate a bell for DRUM. DRUM is lucky to have her bell. COD's went missing when she arrived in Cleveland in 1959. Other museum boats have had to "buy" theirs back via ebay, etc., and sometimes have had to involve the NIS.
PF
:knuppel2: :police:
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The bell and a lot of other things on board may have been plated when it was a reserve boat. I will try to remember to ask crew in June.
Tom Bowser
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THERE IS A E-BAY ITEM FROM THE DRUM.ITEM #110251520664 IT IS A ASHTRAY,HEAVY METAL.IT SAYS USS DRUM LAUNCHED MAY 12 1941.NEAT!
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Thanks I will check it out
Tom Bowser
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http://cgi.ebay.com/USS-DRUM-SUBMARINE-ASHTRAY-NAVY-METAL-U-S-S-NAVAL_W0QQitemZ110251520664QQihZ001QQcategoryZ585QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Ashtrays seem to be a common item.
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HELLO DRUMVOL:DID YOU BID ON THE DRUM ASHTRAY.I SEE SOME ACTION ON IT.I THINK 5 BIDS.IF YOU WIN WILL YOU PUT IT IN THE BOAT AND IF SO I HOPE SOMEWHERE IT CAN BE SEEN BUT NOT TOUCHED.
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We are bidding on it and if we get it it will go in the wardroom or in the captains desk behind lexan with tamper proof screws, we want it to be visable also.
Tom Bowser
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HELLO TOM,
DID YOU GET THE DRUM ASHTRAY?
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I won't know until monday, our curator was bidding on it for me.
Tom Bowser
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GOOD LUCK I HOPE YOU GET IT.I MISSED OUT ON A CROAKER PLAQUE AWHILE BACK
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You have to snipe.
And you have to have deep pockets (if needed).
PF
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I won't know until monday, our curator was bidding on it for me.
Tom Bowser
Unless the curator is going by the name "dak21pz" and lives in San Dimas, CA, the item was lost. :(
$77.01 with 12 bids. I tell you, eBay frustrates the piss outta me when I try to win something. Back 7 or 8 years ago, you could win stuff. Now you have to sit there at the time of the auction ending and refresh like mad and even then you still have bad odds.
http://cgi.ebay.com/USS-DRUM-SUBMARINE-ASHTRAY-NAVY-METAL-U-S-S-NAVAL_W0QQitemZ110251520664QQihZ001QQcategoryZ585QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?
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I sure wouldn't have gone that high for it, maybe he will drop iy on his foot and break a toe.
Tom Bowser
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OK, so you guys don't know what sniping is! You will have to learn.
No need to sit there refreshing like a trained monkey until the last second of the bidding process. There are services called "Snipers" -- which offer a free service. You put in the ebay auction item number, tell the program what your top bid is (and you have to make sure it is going higher than any reserve anyone else has put onthe item in question. Then, you tell it how close to the end of an auction you want it to place the bid, and were talking within 10 seconds... then, when the final countdown is proceeding and the numbskull thinks he is going to get your prized widget from your boat for $12, you bid gets zapped in and wins the bid (if your reserver is higher than his) even before he can realize what has happened.
Hopefully you've now left him or her coiled on the floor in a fetal position, biting their fingernails and wetting their pants.
Google "sniper services" to find one. I will ask our director which service he prefers and get back to you. This is not a game... if you have something you need from your boat, or for your boat, you have to have no mercy. Bidding up the price of something just makes the jackass who stole the item from the boat that much richer.
PF :knuppel2:
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Agreed. One service that I have used is e-snipe. I forget the other one. Many of them offer you a free trial or 3 free winning bids (it doesn't count if you lose). Also, if you get other friends to join, they sometimes give you more free bids.
If you still prefer the low-tech way, don't place a bid until the last 12 seconds of the auction. Have the amount already typed in and ready to go. Hit refresh a few times after the auction has less than 1 minute to go and at about 10-12 seconds left hit bid, and then hit the confirmation button - a fast internet connection is required.
Some of these... well, many of these a$$es on eBay like to bid against their own auctions to drive up the price, too. So, bidding at the last second keeps them or their buddies from jacking the price on you. Every so often they will win their own auction and within a minute of the auction ending you get a "2nd Chance Offer" at an amount higher than your max bid. I always ignore these and let the schemer eat it.
Okay... rant over...