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Jay,
Amazing photo, you've got to admire these guys
doing it the hard way on a budget.
There's an opportunity out there for someone with
translation skills to set up a Russian
or Chinese psubs based on our site.
Brent,
Maybe you could combine your two latest postings
(serious)
Have a higher durometer material for the high
pressure seal & have the pneumatic cylinders opening
the hatch & exerting additional closing
pressure to your hatch mechanism for the low
pressure seal.
Alan
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Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:38
AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Chinese
home-built sub makes the water
Looks like the
oil drum sub made it to the water. Wonder if he returned to the
surface? His periscope TV camera looks a little dodgy (notice the
additional camera on the forward end of the sail) and note that it looks like
he had to add an additional ballast tank aft for flotation wince we last saw
this boat. Not much freeboard, a passing boat could swamp it
easily. Looks like he subscribes to Brent?s method of sealing his hatch
with Sikaflex.
Sept. 3: Amateur inventor Tao
Xiangli, 34, operates his fully-functional homemade submarine in a lake on the
outskirts of Beijing. Xiangli took 2 years to invent and test the submarine
which costs 30,000 yuan ($4,385).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/09/04/GA2009090402947.html
(see image 15).
R/Jay
Resepectfully,
Jay
K. Jeffries
Andros Is.,
Bahamas
Save the whales, collect the
whole set.
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