RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Getting Respect

[Brent Shaw <drydivenz@yahoo.com>]

My experiences have been, tell them you want it for a
personal submarine and they think your either mad or
don't want to know about the work. Tell them its for a
steel boat that your building as a hobby and you can
get some really good deals. Allthough, now my boat is
starting to take a bit of shape respect is coming
anyway.
Brent Shaw
for the clear waters of NZ

--- Alec Smyth <Asmyth@changepoint.com> wrote:
> 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


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