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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] shapeable incompressable filler..any ideas?
I think any volume saving would be offset by the PITA of tring to form just
about *anything* around the innards.
You would probably be better off just reducing the size of your pressure
hull to your acceptable limit and then using the elusive incompressable
material to build an outter hull to make up its bouancy.
Or you could just do it the old fashioned way and use ballast tanks.
As for the material itself... You could experiment with foamed ceramics or
glass bead/epoxy resin mixtures.
James
>From: Erik Michael Muller <emm03@uow.edu.au>
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>CC: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] shapeable incompressable filler..any ideas?
>Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:48:34 +1000
>
>Hi John,
>Thanks for the thought. The problem with oil is that it is v. messy,
>especially if the container leaks. In any case, I would have to
>designt a specially shaped container out of something.
>Now I think about it, it might be useful to shape some solid porous
>material, like plaster, soak it in water/oil, then apply a coat of
>wax/epoxy to seal it in...
>hmmmm...
>thanks for the idea.. I will give it more thought.
>E.M.
>
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> > Have you considered oil?
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> > John
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> > John Brownlee
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k
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