Re: sub design

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@eng.Sun.COM>]

Hi Bill,

>   This is a follow up from quite a while ago.. I was explaining how  I was
>going to make the end caps for my sub.. I have now made a scale replica,
>out of metal, just to see how easy it would be to accomplish.  I have a
>picture of it if anyone is interested.. 

Yes, send pictures. Send them to ray@psubs and I'll get them to the web site.

> By the way, I found the design in
>a "welding handbook" after I thought of it.  They call it a pressure
>bonnet. It appears to be very easy to construct. 

Please give me details of the book. Publisher, author, edition, date....

>  Just for everyones info.  My design is going to be 11.5 feet long 42 inch
>diameter.  The pipe I am using appears to be metric, but is very close to
>9/16 thick. (just a hair over) but not 5/8 as I thought originally.  I
>originally wanted it to be about 8 feet long, but the conning tower, and
>weight of the sub, would not allow me to put enough ballast in the bottom
>to make sure it would float upright..  11 feet will allow me to accomplish
>this..
>
> one other thing.. is it my computer, or has there been no activity here
>for a while.????
>
>bill

Must be winter.

Regards,
Ray