Remember that those drums were
heavily corrugated so it may well go to 30 ft. Better him than me.
Brent could do an FEA on that. Should keep him quiet for a while.
Wonder if there are any previous
subs done with corrugated shells. Maybe the French did that after they
built the 2CV (Deux Chaveaux ?? (Spelling)) It had corrugations.
Chs, Hugh
From:
owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of Alan James
Sent: 07 September 2009 09:29
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Chinese home-built sub makes the water
Just
did some homework on "Chinese death trap".
The
article says its 1.6 tonnes & calculating out the displacement of 7 drums
thats about right.
Wich
means the drums must be his pressure hull & not an outer ballast tank.
He
says he can go to 30ft, but a thick 1.2mm drum has a crush depth of 16ft. If he
reinforced all
the
drums half way that would only give him 33ft. Might be wrong, he might be an
ardent follower of psubs.org.
&
have built it to ABS standards.
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Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September
07, 2009 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
Chinese home-built sub makes the water
Looks to me, like
Xiangli has about the same hatch land height as my original K boat.
I've have to ship him some amas. ;}'
" The truth may set you free but first its going to piss you off.
" ~ attributed
to Gloria Steinem
Save the Nuts, Collect the whole set
Sent: Saturday, September
05, 2009 6:16 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
Chinese death trap
Here
is another image of the Chinese death trap sub. Looks like he is working
on his TV periscope, the mast seems to be made of a piece of clear acrylic
pipe. Note the red line on the front of the sail, I am guessing that this
is his trim line. As I stated earlier, he is operating with very little
freeboard.
http://www.uniquedaily.com/amateur-inventors-homemade-submarine/
R/Jay
Resepectfully,
Jay K.
Jeffries
Andros
Is., Bahamas
Save
the whales, collect the whole set.
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