[PSUBS-MAILIST] Labor Day Diving

[Douglas Suhr]

Yikes! I have never seen one of these operations in person but it sounds
like jury-rigged fits the bill! Without hurting their feelings I think I
would just stick to my own sub! ~ Douglas S.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Alec Smyth <alecsmyth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Douglas,
>
> Last year I was on vacation and went over to look at a bunch of these at a
> dive concession. Yours looks impeccable by comparison. You wouldn't believe
> the things they'd jury-rigged! My favorite was a kitchen glove penetrator.
> They got a rubber kitchen glove, poked cables out the fingers, and filled
> the whole thing with resin. They'd also used kitchen gloves fingers to make
> "housings" for switches.
>
> Best,
>
> Alec
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Douglas Suhr <spiritofcalypso at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott, thanks! The water temperature was about 72 degrees and the
>> visibility was 3 to 4 feet. Chautauqua lake is fairly close to us,
>> unfortunately it is not the best waters for diving. The water is very green
>> with algae and the seaweed is a constant fight until you get into the deep
>> water. The lake serves well for testing purposes though.
>>
>> The only modification we made was a new pressure cap for the motor
>> housing. This submersible's thruster is not pressure compensated but
>> instead sealed in a 1-atm container. This is of course fine as long as you
>> don't have any leaking, which unfortunately we did when we first purchased
>> the sub. We ended up having to completely remove the motor from the
>> housing, clean and lubricate the motor and replace the relay. Then we had
>> to discover the leak point. Fortunately it wasn't the shaft seal, only the
>> access cap on the housing. We modified a new cap from one we purchased at a
>> marine supply house and haven't experienced any more water intrusion since.
>> I'll tell you though, after all this mess I am much more in favor of
>> pressure compensating than trying to seal a 1-atm container.
>>
>> Hope you are coming along nicely with Trustworthy. I can't wait to see
>> her in person at the convention! The photos look very nice, but you know
>> they can never really speak for the real thing. ~ Douglas S.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, <swaters at waters-ks.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome Douglas!,
>>> How was the water? Did you have to do any mods to the submersible to get
>>> it working?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott Waters
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Labor Day Diving
>>> From: Douglas Suhr <spiritofcalypso at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, September 08, 2013 10:34 am
>>> To: "personal_submersibles at psubs.org" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>>>
>>> Hi folks, hope you are all as excited as I am about this year's
>>> convention, I think it is going to be awesome! Before the convention I
>>> wanted to show you my first ambient submersible that I purchased on ebay
>>> back in '04 so I took her out diving over the labor day weekend on a check
>>> dive. The photos are posted in the album "SNARK II" under my name on the
>>> site. I think you'll find the last few photos of the album to be quite
>>> comical as well!
>>>
>>> I have also posted an album called "K-250 then and now" which features
>>> photos of the old K-boat down in Marathon from 1996 as well as 2013.
>>> Interesting what 17 years will do to an exposed sub. ~ Douglas S.
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