[PSUBS-MAILIST] Rubber Glove Penetrator

Mon Sep 9 15:05:19 EDT 2013

Well, nothing I can picture that involves a rubber glove.  The only  resins 
I have worked with have quite an exothermic reaction, so always curious  
about other materials.  Still, I file away even those ideas that sound a  bit 
strange.  You never know when a situation may arise that fits.
-Jim

In a message dated 9/9/2013 1:55:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com writes:

Epoxy would be Ok Jim,
Are you thinking of doing the same?
Alan

Sent from my iPad

On 9/09/2013, at 8:47 PM, _JimToddPsub at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JimToddPsub at aol.com)  wrote:

Alec,
Did you take any pictures of the glove or any of the other  "innovations"?  
 Any guesses as to what material they used that  didn't melt the glove 
while it was setting up and curing?
Jim

In a message dated 9/9/2013 12:05:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
_alecsmyth at gmail.com_ (mailto:alecsmyth at gmail.com)  writes:

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_ 
(mailto: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_ 
(mailto: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_ 
(mailto:spiritofcalypso at gmail.com) >
Date: Sun,  September 08, 2013 10:34 am
To: "_personal_submersibles at psubs.org_ 
(mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org) " <_personal_submersibles at psubs.org_ 
(mailto: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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