ORIGINAL: 1sgt
ORIGINAL: dedmonwakin
Thanks alot Rivetcounter! After searching a while, I finally found it. Best part is that a forum member posted a pic of it before it's capture. Also these improvised exhaust extensions had 4 vent slits facing the turret (whether there were matching ones towards the rear is known.) on another Tiger. The Tiger 100 had a different variation from the others (taller) I suppose the four slits on the Tiger 100 exhaust extensions is unsupported, but I think I will add them for more uniqueness and sacrifice a bit of accuracy. The new information that I've acquired now makes me second guess it's use with the fording pipe since it has those vent slits. I'm wondering if they were used to prevent snow from building up into the exhaust when the Tiger was stationary for long periods.....maybe before hinged flappers for the exhaust were added to the tank....or maybe these suppressed sound or fog when heat hit the cold air giving away their position? I can't think of any other reason, don't think a collection of snow building up in the exhaust pipe, fog, or sound would be a good thing. Good stuff on that site.
Ps, If that was there intention, then you would expect the slits to be on the rear of the extension as well. You very could be correct in putting them there as well.
Jim
D,
You may have hit on it with the heat mixing with cold air resulting in a large steam cloud from the exhaust giving the position of the tank away. The vents may have been designed to mix the hot exhaust gases with cold air before exiting the top of the system resulting in a smaller steam cloud signature. Just my thoughts, nothing to back it up. The fact that only one unit had these vented extensions and they dissappeared after that one year, could have been that the result wasn't satisfactory enough to incorporate them system wide. Again just my thoughts.
Jim