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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Carbon Fiber
----- Original Message -----
From: <TeslaTony@aol.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Carbon Fiber
" Cal? As if in California? I live 45 minutes from San Fransisco! You may
have just solved my supply problem!"
Cool! Glad to help! See if ALCO METALS is still in business. They were in
the San Leandro / Oakland border area; don't remember the exact street;
ought to be in the yellow pages, though.
" A sub is an unusual project? Someone might think I'm nuts?
Hmmmm.......this is odd....I thought EVERYONE built subs!"
Well, there are more people building subs these days, so maybe (hopefully)
we'll get more acceptance. But back in the 1980's, there weren't so many.
So yeah, a lot of people thought it was pretty strange. "And they also said
it was impossible-sible-sible-sible...for a man to live and breathe
underwater..." (Oops, having a Jimi Hendrix flashback, there...)
Other backyard sub enthusiasts of the time and place apparently experienced
the same sort of negativity: as evidenced by the DENNOCH submarine (built by
four Stanford University engineering students in a Menlo Park garage, and
presently on display alongside the PAMPANITO at Fisherman's Wharf) which
bears the slogan on the tailfin: "Because it can't be done." I guess that's
what people told them, too; and that's part of the reason why they wanted to
do it: just to show 'em it could.
In my own humble opinion, this is why PSUBS is so important: we're a
worldwide forum where people interested in personal submarines can meet and
interact. We have everybody from "the kid who dreams of the day" to "the
top pros in the business" sharing information here. Before PSUBS, I felt
pretty much restricted to what I could learn through my own research; now we
can all more easily benefit from the experience of others. This is a good
thing. We're all very fortunate.
Good luck with your project, Anthony.
VBR,
Pat