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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] carbon fibre



Bill,
 
   I was thinking the same thing, in that I thought I WAS tuned into a sub chat group and most importantly, talking about subs. (O.K., I threw in the gyrocopter thing a little while ago....but I got refocused).
 
   You just never know when you are going to stumble upon some gem of an idea that someone has by following some of these discussion.  I just simply delete the ones that don't apply to what I want to do, but even those are rare as I find I gain some value from most any post.
 
   ....but hey, I'm new here.
 
Myles.
----- Original Message -----
From: Akins
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] carbon fibre

I thought this WAS the definitive chat room for sub discussion. The more discussion, the more knowledge gained. The more knowledge gained, the more education and safer designs.
 
I've seen periods of very little postings here. Which is better?
 
Bill.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] carbon fibre

not a happy camper today, are we?



On 10/30/05, Dave Banks <noperiscope@yahoo.com> wrote:
Carbon Fiber.  It's been used for years and is nothing new.  Spend some time traveling through the Internet before you make unnecessary mail for every one.  Why don't you guys go join a chat room some place.  Fiber glass works fine too. I know your excited about submarines and I understand but if you go to the archives of this site you'll find out all kinds of good stuff with out all this e mail.   
 
Simon,
 
   My limited experience in this has shown me that steel is used because of the cost factor.  I guess dollar for dollar, it is the cheapest and easiest material to work with.  As far as weight is concerned, the subs NEED weight anyway so why not incorporate some of that into the pressure hull with steel ?   ...that's how it seems to me.
 
Myles.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:33 PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] carbon fibre

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but why hasn't anybody made a pressure hull out of carbon fibre? Apparently it's 5 times as strong as steel, and good for reinforcing aluminium. Sounds like a logical, light-weight, low-cost alternative

-Simon


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