RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Trailers (revisited)...

[Duncan Milne <milned@teckcorp.ca>]

Dan,
	You can also assume that many of us also won't try to move from
California to Trenton, New Jersey!  :>)  (Apologies to folks from the
"Garden State"
but I lived in Browns Mills, just south of Ft. Dix, N.J. for 8 years.)
	Seriously though, (but change of topic) here a few sites that may be
of interest:
1. From The Association of Diving Contractors on inspecting and maintaining
PVHO windows 
	http://www.adc-usa.org/ts/ts2.html
2. On the German Research Submersible JAGO
	http://www.mpi-seewiesen.mpg.de/~hissmann/jago.html
3. And on Russian Submersibles
	http://itri.loyola.edu/subsea/c4_s2.htm	

	Duncan Milne
	North Vancouver, British Columbia


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan J. Rice [SMTP:dan.j.rice@sherwin.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:44 AM
> To:	personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject:	Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Trailers (revisited)...
> 
> 
> 
> Cap'n Nemo wrote; "    If your trailer doesn't have good stopping power,
> your
> tow-vehicle's brakes are going to have to do all the work.  And another
> thing to
> consider: how good are the springs and shocks on your tow vehicle?  The
> ones on
> my old van were shot, and that's part of the reason I almost lost control
> at 50
> mph."
> 
> Reminds me of when I was moving from CA to NJ in 1980.  I tried to pull
> all my
> stuff behind a 1964 Rambler with a unimold body.  It worked fine until the
> first
> downhill, then the trailer wanted to pass the car.  After fishtailing down
> the
> whole slope and ripping the bumper (with hitch) half off, I got it stopped
> and
> wanted to get out and check the damage.  Problem was the legs weren't
> working
> for a few minutes.  So I crawled back in the car and waited.  Then I
> dropped the
> trailer on the side of the freeway, drove back to a friend who owned a
> truck,
> got my brother-in-law to put all the boxes on a freight train to Trenton,
> and
> headed out again.
> 
> All in all a very memorable lesson in trailer physics and dynamics, at a
> lower
> weight than the subs we're talking about pulling.  I assume none of you
> will try
> that with a '64 Rambler.
> 
> Dan
>