Re: battery boxes

[Rick Lucertini <empiricus@sprint.ca>]

VBra676539@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/30/99 3:11:42 AM, empiricus@sprint.ca writes:
>
> <<
> Were the Al2 endcaps sheet or concave?  How thick?  Why not use standard PVC
> endcaps?
> >>
>
> Sorry, missed this question. The endplates were flat aluminum, about 3/4"
> thick as I recall, with a couple of pipe nipples screwed into drilled and
> tapped holes for power and for leak detectors. Each plate had 4 "ear tabs"
> and 4 long rods with a nut at each end threaded through and holding the whole
> thing together. Pods were 48" long, best I can recall, and had not internal
> ring stiffeners, although there was some discussion of machining aluminum
> rings (1" X 1" in cross section) and just sort of squeezing them into each
> pod on 16" centers, but as far as I know this was never done.
> Vance

Thanks Vance - you just saved me a bundle of angst.  Hugh Daskin (did some ISE stuff) taught
(teaches) a sub design course here in Vancouver.  He covered batt boxes but there was more
construction involved.  The PVC method sounds perfect for scuba depths.

Rick