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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: For Shadetree Sub Builders (like me)...
Yeah, count me in there too, while you're at it.
Except, what with me being a GM mechanic, I'll find a
way to get Holley carbs and some NOS in there
somewhere....oh, and a big bad Buick emblem on the
front...hehehehe
--- Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:02:58 -1000 "Captain Nemo"
> <vulcania@interpac.net>
> writes:
> >Wow! I was just sitting here scarfing a crab-melt
> and orange juice, and
>
> >going through some of the posts in the Archive. I
> see there has been a
> >lot of "hotly contested" issues discussed in the
> past, to put it mildly.
>
> I guess that's to be expected with a high-powered
> group that's
> assembled itself here.
>
> >I'm not sure what to call my involvement with
> submarines, other than to
> >say it sure isn't "professional". Since 1955, I've
> had a love for
> >underwater technologies, but my work therein has
> been mostly done in
> >the name of personal fulfillment.
> [snip]
> >I'm definitely a "for fun" and a "shallow-water
> only" kind of sub
> >builder; I'm not the underwater equivalent of a
> rocket scientist; and I
> >relate mostly to those guys like myself who are out
> there all around the
>
> >World, struggling in their crude little backyard
> shops, trying to do
> >something most people tell us is impossible.
>
> Pat, I think this is an important concept: that our
> pusbs are
> recreational
> in intent. This separates us into two groups
> within ourself, I think.
>
> One group is the 300-foot,
> lots-of-lights-and-a-manipulator crowd.
> These
> guys are going deep and doing things intensely. If
> they built an
> airplane
> instead, it would be a Rutan design or a replic
> fighter.
>
> The other group is building the equivelent of a
> Piper Cub. It sees at
> the
> goal being submerged. They're not less intense in
> terms of standards,
> but a lot less interested in being deep underwater.
>
> I fit into the second group. I've considered (and
> even sketched out) a
> replica Bushnell Turtle, with an eye to going about
> ten feet underwater.
> I'm trying to get the plans to a couple of other
> early subs, and I'd be
> diving to nore more than 30 feet.
>
> But, whatever our goals, we're in it to have fun.
>
> I see us as the same type of guy who, seventy-five
> years ago, read
> Modern Mechanix and Scientific American. Probably
> in a garage
> that held an in-progress airplane or cabin cruiser.
>
>
> Mike Holt
> --
>
>
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