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.
----- 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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