Although I've been pretty busy lately getting ready for a move to Florida,
I was able to get a couple things done on the sub. I broke another camera so
pictures will have to wait.
UPDATE: The "french cut" tubes for the dive plane actuators are now
finished being installed into the front stainless ballast tanks. They look kind
of like the old fake exhaust ports on the sides of a Buick from the 50's. This
way the actuators themselves are behind the 12 gage SS and are protected from
impacts and entanglement. Just the linkage rods to the dive planes are
exposed.
Today I'm finishing the "drop weight carriage" assembly so the sub will be
ready to pull up onto the trailer. The carriage is made from the disk I cut out
for installing the main hatch, with 6 ea. 1500 pound capacity steel
rollers. This disk bolts to the bottom of the sub and will have ( not yet ) a 1"
SS threaded pin as a drop mechanism. At this point I'm just trying to get the
sub ready for the move.
Yesterday I bought a 10K pound rated trailer and arranged for a big rental
truck to haul it back east.
Well, back to work.
Frank D.