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Greetings Frank, Your "gills" give it a cool look. The mottling on the front fairing from sanding the filler, makes it look like some rock fish I've seen out fishing in the San Juan's. I'm really liking how the dive planes are coming together. What model of dive lights are you planning to install? Your making fiction into reality. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." ~ Albert Einstein I'll be headed your way once I visit Doc and test drive the BioniOrca. ;)' Cheers, Szybowski From: ShellyDalg@aol.com Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:36:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New pics of Frank's sub. To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Hi guys. Well, here's a couple of new pics. The dive planes have a socket for dive lights, so the light shines in the direction of travel. The fairings still need a little finish work but the cold damp weather means I'll have to wait on that. The patterns for the stainless ballast tanks are made but I haven't bought the sheets yet. Material cost for the stainless is about $3500 and that will be the next components to build. The rear motor mounts/rudders are done and I'll be using hydraulic cylinders to actuate the rudders and dive planes.
Greg. C. gave me a source for the 3 inch plexi and I will order that next week and get it machined locally. Haven't found anyone locally yet who does plexi annealing, but that will work out eventually. Just a little progress each day. Thanks for all your help. Have a good New Year, Frank D.
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