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Re: I FOUND THEM! DIRECTIONAL THRUSTERS
Albert, I would love to know how he compensates the pressure in this
trolling motor???
Steve McColman, Vancouver
Island
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>Off the shelf trolling motors for $ 225.00
>I called a friend of mine, Doug Previtt, owner of the delta sub which
>maybe you have seen on tv, his sub dove and photographed the wreck of
the
>Lusitainia which was made into a tv documentary.
>Anyway, he told me to get a hold of a friend of his, don, owner of
>Undersea Graphics
>he owns a sub called the "Snooper" which was in a movie with David
>Carridean called "Gray lady down" He has retired this sub and has built
a
>new one. He went through the whole directional thrusters thing and
>decided to try an evinrude 24v 36 pound thrust trolling motor and It
>worked great !!!
>He has been using it for a few years and the only problem he has run
>across is the prop would get a little wear after a while and he would
>just put a new one on to avoid shearing the pin...
>he said all you have to do is buy it, take the shaft that runs up to
the
>speed control electronics housing off, over size the hole, tap it, and
>put an elec. through hull in, running the two wires into the sub and to
>your power on and reversing switches.
>And thats it.
>
>how deep has he had it ?... 700 ft.
>Sounds like a good way to go.
>
>
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