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Hey everybody,
I've been pretty quiet on the pusubs form. A little update on myself and KW350 Trustworthy. For those of you who remember I got ran over and suffered a really bad leg injury. I went though surgery in November to remove peices of my ankle and reshape my cartilage and was doing better, but am having complications again, so surgery again may be comming soon. I haven't let that stop me (just slow me down), but I have been making good progress on my sub. I'll be uploading pictures soon. I also got engauged just recently! I proposed 35 feet under water while scuba diving in Key West. Good thing is my girlfriend is a excellent welder and scuba cert, so I might actually be getting more done on my sub rather than less with a wife. haha. I have ran into a few questions though and I though I would ask everyone. Here they are: *For the copper tubing on the blueprints is it best to use compression fittings or flare fittings? *Is there anything wrong with running the vent controls internaly so the ball valve is on the inside rather than a trough hull with the valve on the outside? *I planning on putting in a DC breaker box on the inside of the sub so you can reset circuts (in the rare ocasion) rather than fuses in the battery pods. Does anyone see any problems with this? * The blueprints call for "1st stage Dacor 200 Regulator" to take the pressure down from 3000psi out of the scuba tanks. I believe that means it brings the pressure down to 200psi. What happens if the sub has an accedental drop to say 500 feet where the pressure is greater than 200psi? Wouldn't the water rush in rather than air go out? Maybe I'm missing something. *The blueprints for the oil compensated motor pods confuse the heck out of me. I have them built, but am pretty much lost as far as how to make the things work. I'm hoping to see some of your subs at the next conference or something and perhaps I'll get it then. I think seing them completely finished and filled with "oil" would help me. would help me alot. Any help on this would be really appriciated. This reminds me, are we having a psubs conference this year? I've heard about lake Michigan, but besides discussion, haven't heard much. If help is needed putting it on, I'd love to help. Thanks in advance for the help! Scott Waters |