Dan
Here's the procedure that we did when testing Lake
diver
1. Larger boat with line winch
2. Set Sub to neutral buoyancy
3. 1400 ft of 5/8 line
4. Depth sounder or sonar
We dog the hatch for the outside with device I came up
with
Open main ballast valves and plug from outside using
pipe plug into exhaust of side of valve.
Tie 2 700ft lines to sub using a good knots
Place sub into water
Place 50lb weight belt onto sub
pull pipe plugs sub will slowly sink to 600 ft
Wait and hour (nerves will be tested)
Then pull sub back to surface note you are only
pulling 50lbs
replace pipe plugs and blow air for underneath into
mains
Not we did this in calm weather and also we watched
sub on sonar during test
As far as 600 ft goes in Seneca lake we have access to
600ft very close to shore
Hope this answer your questions
john
let me know if youd like to do this be more than happy
to help
--- "Dan H." <jmachine@adelphia.net> wrote:
John,
I still haven't done a deep water test on my K-boat.
I've only been diving
in shallow water so far, so it's no big deal. I
would like to do a deep
water test in the fall. Do you have a boat, cable
and place to test? If
so, I may be interested in hiring you to drop it in.
How many boats have you built? When we last spoke,
you had the one you and
your dad built and the unfinished hull you were
trying to sell. Have you
built any more then that?
How many hulls have you tested?
Dan H.
----- Original Message -----
From: "john" <mongo14904@yahoo.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] selling rides
HI
I would like to ad that when we build a sub we
pressure
check it for 1 hr at 600ft and i believe that is
good
method for checking the workmen ship of any sub.
and that you can xray if you like but i like the
depth
check at pressure test myself
john
--- atozed@juno.com wrote:
I believe some uncertified, uninsured people
could
get away with
accepting donations.
Your best bet is to do what you've been doing to
make money, does anybody
(in the USA) make money with a sub?
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:53:40 -1000 "JANE PATTON"
<landnsea1@verizon.net>
writes:
Hi Vance
Thank you so much for your speedy reply! I
had
called John (the guy
who builds the K-subs in New York) the other
day
and he had never herd
of anyone who had built their subs to ABS
standards and it sounds like
I am
hearing the same thing from you.
I was surprised to hear that he doesn't even
X-Ray
his welds when he
builds one for somebody.
This is all new to me so I must be a bit over
cautious. I live on
the Big Island in Hawaii and thought with our
clear water and all, and
the
fact that I plain just want one to play with,
it
would make good sense
to be
able to take a paying passenger down from time
to
time to help defray
the
construction costs etc, but since we live in a
sue
happy
environment, it
would be a good idea to have liability
insurance
and to get that
"from what
I understand" it has to be built to ABS
standards.
Do you have a K sub or other and do you or
have
you spoken with
people who
charge a fee to take people down?
Thanks
Rick
, 4
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