Hi all!I just made my first trip to the local tire changer. I got 200pounds of tire weight for 20$!
I want to thank all of you who toke time to respoend to my message. Once again psubs helped me when I needed it!
Pierre "leadfull" Poulin
From: Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com> Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Cheap and heavy... Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:05:28 -0700Actually, now that I think of it, if you drop one or two heavy weights, the change in weight versus the force of water and gravity *could* damage the sub. If you have a bunch of little weights and slowly drop them, all the better. Slower is better, I feel.Carl Dan H. wrote:Better do some weight and volume calculations Pierre. You may need a crewto move the extinguishers when full. If possible,may be better off with separate lighter weights. I remember reading in Kitteridge's book where he tested his drop weight in shallowwater. He had a tough time recovering the one heavy weight and dragging itashore. After that he made it a pan with separate lead weights in it. Dan H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Poulin" <pipo305@hotmail.com> To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Cheap and heavy...well, thx guys. I will talk to local tire changer store. Here the seasonforwinter tire is almost finished so those weight should come plenty!!!I will then melt them into used stanless steel fir extinguisher, et voila!Pierre PoulinFrom: Steven Mills <cirtemoeg@juno.com> Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Cheap and heavy... Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:51:12 -0800 Hmmm, well, Pierre asked first, so he's got dibs. If not I'll pay for shipping on that? How about it? Pierre? I'll look in the trash bins, too, I know I'll need more. Thanks, --Steve On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:25:09 -0800 (PST) Chris Nugent <dirkpitt77@yahoo.com> writes:At our shop we've got a whole bucketful of discarded used wheel weights, probably on the order of 100-150 lbs. Hell, we'd give them away to any takers. You guys should be looking in the trash bins back by their tire machines. You could probably talk any local shops out of them for free... My .02 Nuge Steven Mills <cirtemoeg@juno.com> wrote: Yea, I checked that, but they're packaged small and that can get expensive. I used to be able to buy large weights for fishing nets and surf fishermen at tackle-bait shops, but I live in Southern Nevada no demand for that kind of thing. How about diver's belts? I need to cast a shape so lead or bismuth alloy is what I'm looking for. Crikey !!! If this was an old feedstore in the Midwest I'd have no problem ! --Steve On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:36:03 EST Subscuba@aol.com writes:How about wheel weights at your local tire store? Ken Martindale________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!_________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! http://messenger.fr.msn.ca/--"By the side of religion, by the side of science, by the side of poetry, stands natural beauty. Not as a rival to these, but as the common inspirer and nourisher of them all." -- G. M. Trevelyan
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