Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] submarine kit-builder's society

[Marc de Piolenc <piolenc@archivale.com>]

On 6/7/2010 11:35 PM, greg cottrell wrote:

> They just KNOW that they are right and the books are wrong. As this
> sport grows, more of these people will be trying to enter. It is
> unavoidable.
> There is no other way to respond to this other than to direct them to
> proven designs. The type that you can find in the ABS guidelines or the
> PVHO. The same information that worlds best sub builders also rely on.

Actually the best way to deal with them is to let them proceed with 
their dreams... but without your help or endorsement. One of three 
things will happen:

1. Most will not proceed with fabrication (they will be equally adamant 
about doing THAT their way, and the material won't cooperate); end of story.

2. Some will proceed to the point where a minor accident (canopy 
cracking during installation) will finally drive home the fact that that 
spoilsport (you) might have actually had a point.

3. The tiny remnant will remove themselves permanently from the gene pool.

All positive outcomes.

There is even a fourth possible outcome: the illuminatus in question may 
actually have a valid idea, which he proves, thus causing progress.

Some friends of mine were given the task of building an aircraft cockpit 
canopy with a larger unsupported area than any ever built before. They 
had to switch from the usual Plexiglas to polycarbonate. Word was that 
polycarbonate could not be "blown" in the necessary size, with adequate 
accuracy. They had no choice but to try, and they eventually succeeded.

Marc



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