Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Submersible Cost and Time to Build

[MerlinSub@t-online.de]

Alan you need more than 1000 hours.. and about 20K. 

Less material cost means more hours. 
More material cost for the SAME sub means less hours. 

Sample :
You purchase a ready to play dome: high cost but less hours
You made the dome yourself : less material cost but many hours. 

Another item is what kind of workshops and tools you have. 
More workshop and better tools lower your hours and material costs.. 

You need at least a good grinder, much better two, a small and a big drilling machine, a good welder
and a garage. A plasma cutter helps also a lot. If you miss one of this items you have to put it one the money list for the project. And two 2-3 overalls, 10-15 pair of hand gloves and, and.. 

My figures shows that you have to add to the material cost about 4-5% for tools and about 9% for other cost (like transport, repair the welder etc..)and it takes you 1-2 hours a week just to clean up.. 

If you work each weekend 16 hours on the sub and that maybe 
40 weeks a year you can spend just 600-700 hours per year and you need one and a half year. 
I build Peppers in a year, a small one man single seater. But Emile spent another year to refit 
and upgrade it.  

Make a exel sheet with all figures helps a lot. And dont worry about the high figures. 
Just start- if you finish it you will forget all the hard money and hours very fast
- and a good build and maintance sub can stay very very long. 
My one mann is twenty years old now and still operational. 

So divided the 
1000 hours to build by a operational time of 
30 years and you get just 33 hours a year to get a sub. 

I think I have much over 10.000 hours on Euronaut now.. 

vbr Carsten 



"Alan Clifford" <Alan@nortruck.com> schrieb:
> Assuming I do most of the work, will $16K buy the materials for a dry,
> one atmosphere, two person submersible with a trailer?
> 
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> Does it take 200, 300, or 400 hours to build one?
> 
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> 
>             Alan
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> 




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