RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Getting Respect

["Alec Smyth" <Asmyth@changepoint.com>]

The first quote for my pressure hull, from a local company that makes cool things for the department of defense, was $28,000. The price I ended up paying, after ordering the parts from the midwest and having a local pressure vessel welder put them together, was about $2,800. 

Alec

-----Original Message-----
From: Carsten Standfuss [mailto:MerlinSub@t-online.de]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:07 AM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Getting Respect


Dan h schrieb:
>
>.... 
> As most of you that are actually building a sub have probably already
> found out, sometimes you get better results if you don't even mention
> the word "submarine" unless it's really pertinent to your request.
> Sometimes to much information just clouds the water.  Convey only what
> you need to and with the confidence your potential supplier needs to
> hear.
> ....

> Food for thought, Dan H.

And it save you thousands of euro if you told your supplier "for a
custombuild simple boiler" instead told him "for my private submarine".. 

:-) Carsten