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In a message dated 5/4/2010 8:39:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jonw@psubs.org writes:
Frank Dalgleish was pretty interested in the manipulator and probably Hi Brian. Sorry for the late reply, I missed this message.
Anyway, I did check out Dan's manipulator arm during the 2007
convention. There are no plans available for it. As I remember he made it
from aluminum pieces, stainless rods and some used Bimba air cylinders. He has a
small electric pump and reservoir filled with vegetable oil inside the sub
to operate it.
He made a through-hull plate with 5 or 6 small fittings in it. The arm is
pretty slow but effective and I doubt it cost very much to build. I have a few
pictures of it and I could send them to you. I've done searches for these before
and there are lots of arms available and a few plans as well. Naturally if you
wanted to buy a ready made one they can run many thousands of dollars but
building a basic one like Dan's should be fairly simple. I remember
seeing one made with a small battery operated screw gun motor
and plexiglass but I doubt it would operate at any serious depth. Do a
Google search and I'm sure there are plans available.
Frank D.
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