Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] My PSUB Explorer

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

If I can find a scanner somewhere I'll sketch out the idea and get it to
you guys.
Carl


Alan Winick wrote:
> 
> Sounds like a Venturi tube.
> 
> --- Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com> wrote:
> > I only know it by that.  It is/was an experimental
> > drive for a submarine
> > intended for speed, I believe.  Take a submarine and
> > put torpedo tubes
> > running horizontal along the bottom.  Except they
> > aren't torp's, they go
> > to the prop, which is inside the tubes.  Wider at
> > the front and narrower
> > at the back, I believe.  Anyhow, it uses the same
> > principle used by my
> > industry- mining.  Look for information on suction
> > dredging.  Jeene
> > Engineering makes those kinds of dredges.  You have
> > a little bit of high
> > pressure water coming in at an angle, and it creates
> > a suction brining
> > in a lot more water through the bigger tube.  I'll
> > have to sketch out
> > the thing I saw and get it scanned.  Was many years
> > back.  Don't even
> > remember who I saw had it or where.  But that was
> > the name, I believe.
> > Reportedly could increase speed with no noticeable
> > increase in power
> > consumption.
> > Carl
> >
> >
> > Michael B Holt wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:56:43 -0600 Coalbunny
> > <coalbunny@vcn.com> writes:
> > > >Why bother with props?  What's wrong with using
> > "cavitated water
> > > >jets"?
> > >
> > > Or, along the same line (sort of), why not try
> > shrouding the props with
> > > thin plexiglass?
> > >
> > > What's a cavitated water jet?   Do I know it by
> > another name?
> > >
> > > Mike H.
> > >
> > >
> >
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