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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] pressure hull parts arrived
Hi Alec - all the best and congratulations -
- steel is a wunderful material - and is only heavy
if your use you plain hands..
Some simple hydraulic lifter and a roller-wheel-car to turn
the subs hull in all directions will fit the most problems.
At first I hit a small hole in the top of my garage and put
a chain lifter on..
Limited space is a much greater problems during the pre-assambling
time . All the time all the parts in the way - and it dosent
matter were your are have storage them...
In just 7 hours and 43 minutes we have here the 07.07.2001 7.00 pm
and that means the CSSX project is still running exact 1 year.
It was a hard year, it was a expensive year and it was a wunderful year.
One thing is also true - it looks big in your garage
- but very small in the ocean..
Again all the best - Carsten
> Alec Smyth schrieb:
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> Yesterday was a big day, because my pressure hull parts were
> delivered. It was an interesting psychological milestone. I've seen
> hundreds of photos of pressure hulls, whether in books or right here
> on psubs. I've seen a number of psubs up close and personal. But it
> was still an absolute shock to see my own pieces in the flesh. I've
> spent years figuring out the specifications for these parts. I
> understand it from an intellectual perspective. However, in a way
> that's very hard to convey, in going from CAD files to tangible pieces
> of steel, everything got much bigger. I mean the parts are
> outrageously, unreasonably, egregiously... heavy. Presumably I will
> now gradually get used to it, and one day when I put the sub in the
> ocean it will probably "shrink" again. But for now, its OH MY GOD WHAT
> THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO WITH THIS MONSTER! The idea that two
> trolling motors will move it seems preposterous.
>
> I now understand why John Farrington's photos feature all those
> ingenious block-and-tackle arrangements. This is going to be some sort
> of Egyptian pyramid-building operation, and as subs go mine is tiny.
> Its evident the greatest danger in a psub is not flooding, fire, or
> implosion, but death in your garage by squashing.
>
> The unloading process took three hours. It took an hour to get this
> beast off the truck and onto the ground. Then another hour to get it
> onto the dolly and into the garage -- I had to tow the dolly with my
> lawn tractor. The third hour I spent staring at it like a zombie.
>
> cheers,
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> - Alec
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