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Re: windows

Steve,
    You are scaring me.  Ordinary glass is not that hard to break and with
a 10 inch unsupported area I would not want to dive the sub.  You should
get professional advise on known materials.  Don't make assumptions that it
will work.  A 10 inch window is very large!  Your window is also probably
not round.  This can cause a lot of other problems with window materials.
Get some pro advise.  Personally I would NEVER use ordinary off the shelf
glass for a sub.

Gary Boucher

At 06:41 PM 8/4/98 PDT, you wrote:
>I know that most of you use acrylic for your portholes.  I was wondering 
>if anyone has tried using actual glass?  Now, I know that sub windows 
>are not something to skimp on, just to save a couple of bucks!  But I 
>already have a big piece of 1.25 inch glass, and 1 square foot of the 
>same acrylic will cost me 75 clams!  If I had a 10 inch diameter glass 
>window that was 1.25 inch thick, what depth would be safe???
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