So-—I need a little help from you Squid-speakers. I keep forgetting what I’m supposed to call female sailors? Sailhers? I dunno, seems complicated.
Before my time. I never worked on a ship that needed a door with a skirt on it. I do remember coming close once, tho. We had to rebuild the piping in the Captain’s Head to make it closer to numbnutproof. I think it was one of the Skate class boats, Seadragon maybe? Seems the Captain had dropped a hardball deuce or something similar and jammed the backflow check valve. When he hit the 400 psi air to flush he pretty much washed down the space. So we drew up a mod that even he couldn’t screw up, yardbirds swamped the whole compartment out, and sent him back to sea with a Subsafe terlet. Don’t remember seeing the bill for that bit of cleverness but copper nickel piping for a flush terlet ain’t gonna be cheep.
If a Marine, they are all squids.
I've always called 'em WAVEs. (Or "Ma'm if they rated a salute.)
'Course I'm also almost old as dirt and with all the PC/Gender confusion of late, you are pretty much on your own calling anybody anything.
“Don’t remember seeing the bill for that bit of cleverness but copper nickel piping for a flush terlet ain’t gonna be cheep.”
I would have to agree using a personal experience:
We built our small home in ‘95 but had been shopping & buying the ‘hard to get at last minute’ items (sinks, faucets, lighting, bath tub & toilets — the latter is the point of this post).
I managed to find at antique stores two old toilets, the new one from 1919, it has an Illini ceramic base with a copper tank just perfect for our small home.
I wanted to mount the tank ‘up’ on the wall and needed a copper tube (with a 90 degree silver solder to attach to the base). The exterior diameter was such that the only size of copper tubing that would work was only available for Navy subs - it has a very thick wall. A 5’ section with the silver solder was $600.
It still works like a champ 29 years later...That Navy plumbing is expensive!