[PSUBS-MAILIST] Personal_Submersibles Digest, Vol 15, Issue 50

roberto alvarez via Personal_Submersibles personal_submersibles at psubs.org
Fri Sep 19 01:36:18 EDT 2014


Not sure on how use this mailing list, i have a question about the seals on
the k250 design,i mean the seals on the motors shaft

2014-09-18 17:27 GMT-07:00 via Personal_Submersibles <
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>    4. Gamma for sale (hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles)
>    5. Thruster Horse Power (Alan via Personal_Submersibles)
>    6. Re: Gamma for sale (Alan via Personal_Submersibles)
>    7. Re: Gamma for sale (hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles)
>    8. Re: Thruster Horse Power (Vance Bradley via Personal_Submersibles)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:18:29 -0700
> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
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> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
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> Brian,
> All I can say is , VERY COOL!  You should send me one and I will test it
> for you.
> Hank
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 9/15/14, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
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>  Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
>  To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <
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>  Received: Monday, September 15, 2014, 9:51 PM
>
>  It would not be a very impressive
>  picture.? An old electric oven I got out of a oven junk
>  yard.? I did actually get the controller and thermostat
>  but I'm just doing it manually this time around.? I did
>  however purchase 4 digital temperature sensors that I've
>  placed at various locations, one in an identical acrylic
>  disk like the ones I'm annealing, one in the middle, one at
>  the top and one in another block of acrylic.? I'm able
>  to control the temperature extremely well, earlier I
>  calibrated the oven with my heat source.? Rather than
>  rely on an on off thermostat controlling an electric heating
>  element, what I'm doing is running a heating element
>  controlled by a rheostat ( one of the top burners).?
>  That way the burner is always on, but delivering a specific
>  amount of heat depending on how high I turn the rheostat up
>  or down.? So what happens is the oven loses heat at a
>  fairly constant rate, wherever I set the dial the oven will
>  stay at that temperature.? As long as there is no !
>   radical fluctuation of the room temperature the oven temp
>  will be very even, so far it's worked out really well.
>
>  The book has a number of different scenarios and
>  recommendations for times and temperatures.? The main
>  thing is the hold temps and a very gradual ramping.
>
>  Brian
>
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>  From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <
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>  Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
>  Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:23:44 +0700
>
>  Is that with the kiln controller off ebay Brian?
>  Alan
>
>  Sent from my iPad
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>  > On 16/09/2014, at 7:10 am, hank pronk via
>  Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > Brian,
>  > That sounds very promising, how about a picture of your
>  oven set up.
>  > Hank
>  > --------------------------------------------
>  > On Mon, 9/15/14, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles
>  <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  wrote:
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>  > Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
>  > To: "PSubs" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  > Received: Monday, September 15, 2014, 1:01 PM
>  >
>  > Annealing going really well
>  > !? ? Holding steady at 285
>  > F Brian
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> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:21:24 -0700
> From: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles
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> To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion"
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
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> I could send you one,  they are 6" in Dia X 1 1/2" thick
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> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:18:29 -0700
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> Brian,
> All I can say is , VERY COOL!  You should send me one and I will test it
> for you.
> Hank
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 9/15/14, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
>  To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  Received: Monday, September 15, 2014, 9:51 PM
>
>  It would not be a very impressive
>  picture.? An old electric oven I got out of a oven junk
>  yard.? I did actually get the controller and thermostat
>  but I'm just doing it manually this time around.? I did
>  however purchase 4 digital temperature sensors that I've
>  placed at various locations, one in an identical acrylic
>  disk like the ones I'm annealing, one in the middle, one at
>  the top and one in another block of acrylic.? I'm able
>  to control the temperature extremely well, earlier I
>  calibrated the oven with my heat source.? Rather than
>  rely on an on off thermostat controlling an electric heating
>  element, what I'm doing is running a heating element
>  controlled by a rheostat ( one of the top burners).?
>  That way the burner is always on, but delivering a specific
>  amount of heat depending on how high I turn the rheostat up
>  or down.? So what happens is the oven loses heat at a
>  fairly constant rate, wherever I set the dial the oven will
>  stay at that temperature.? As long as there is no !
>   radical fluctuation of the room temperature the oven temp
>  will be very even, so far it's worked out really well.
>
>  The book has a number of different scenarios and
>  recommendations for times and temperatures.? The main
>  thing is the hold temps and a very gradual ramping.
>
>  Brian
>
>  --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org
>  wrote:
>
>  From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
>  Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:23:44 +0700
>
>  Is that with the kiln controller off ebay Brian?
>  Alan
>
>  Sent from my iPad
>
>  > On 16/09/2014, at 7:10 am, hank pronk via
>  Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > Brian,
>  > That sounds very promising, how about a picture of your
>  oven set up.
>  > Hank
>  > --------------------------------------------
>  > On Mon, 9/15/14, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles
>  <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealing
>  > To: "PSubs" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  > Received: Monday, September 15, 2014, 1:01 PM
>  >
>  > Annealing going really well
>  > !? ? Holding steady at 285
>  > F Brian
>  >
>  > -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:31:01 +0700
> From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
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> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Thruster Horsepower
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> Mainly for Vance,
> Vance I think off the top of your head you came up with a figure of  about
> 1 hp of
> combined horizontal thrust for every ton of submarine, as a ballpark
> figure for
> a lot of the subs you are familiar with. Is that correct or can anyone
> else remember that?
> Also what was the Deep Workers new thruster rating thanks.
> Alan
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:31:15 -0700
> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
>         <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: personal_submersibles at psubs.org
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma for sale
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> To anyone interested, I am considering selling Gamma.  Please contact me
> at hankpronk at live.ca  if interested for details.
> Hank
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:57:02 +0700
> From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
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> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Thruster Horse Power
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> I'm sending this again.
> Apologies if it came through previously, but yahoo is telling me
> it has "no content" & no one replied.
> Mainly for Vance,
> Vance I think off the top of your head you came up with a figure of  about
> 1 hp of
> combined horizontal thrust for every ton of submarine, as a ballpark
> figure for
> a lot of the subs you are familiar with. Is that correct or can anyone
> else remember that?
> Also what was the Deep Workers new thruster rating thanks.
> Alan
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:00:56 +0700
> From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma for sale
> Message-ID: <0013B288-B05F-4831-83C1-0A25C64B0DDB at yahoo.com>
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> That's sad Hank,
> the two of you were only together for a short while.
> I thought you were after camera's for her the other day!
> Alan
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 19/09/2014, at 6:31 am, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> >
> > To anyone interested, I am considering selling Gamma.  Please contact me
> at hankpronk at live.ca  if interested for details.
> > Hank
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:09:44 -0700
> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
>         <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
>         <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma for sale
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>
> I want a sub with a bow dome, and I don't want to mess with changing
> Gamma.  If there is no buyers then I will install cameras.  I have one
> video camera on the way to start testing.
> Hank--------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 9/18/14, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma for sale
>  To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <
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>  Received: Thursday, September 18, 2014, 8:00 PM
>
>  That's sad Hank,
>  the two of you were only together for a short
>  while.
>  I thought you were after camera's
>  for her the other day!
>  Alan
>
>
>  Sent from my
>  iPad
>
>  > On 19/09/2014, at
>  6:31 am, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > To anyone
>  interested, I am considering selling Gamma.? Please contact
>  me at hankpronk at live.ca?
>  if interested for details.
>  > Hank
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> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:27:42 -0400
> From: Vance Bradley via Personal_Submersibles
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> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Thruster Horse Power
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> Alan,
> Loosely speaking that would be about correct. Limited to older prop
> designs perhaps. Back in the day, Perry ran a 7.5 hp motor in pc-5, PC-8
> and ps-2, all of which ran to 6-tons(ish) in launch trim. The PC-9 weighed
> 12-tons or better and started life with the same drive package. It wasn't
> enough so when we retro-fitted her we went with (I think) 15, which was
> overkill. Then Intersub opted for what became the PC-1201 and her sisters.
> Based on the experience with the others and the PC-15 (which had two 10 hp
> units chained and clutched together driving through a reduction gear) they
> settled in for the standard which was 10hp. All of them drove big props
> through reduction gears and that drive complete weighed about 900 pounds
> and produced nearly that much of a bollard pull. The 18s used a different
> motor with no reduction gear but were also 10 hp. Phil Nuytten talks
> horsepower rather than pounds of thrust. The Newt-screws are variable
> depending on input voltage, as I understand !
>  it. Running 5-hp at 240 volts for instance means you could use two of
> those to replace the big Perry unit and save about 700 pounds of payload
> with roughly the same thrust output.
> Vance
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm sending this again.
> > Apologies if it came through previously, but yahoo is telling me
> > it has "no content" & no one replied.
> > Mainly for Vance,
> > Vance I think off the top of your head you came up with a figure of
> about 1 hp of
> > combined horizontal thrust for every ton of submarine, as a ballpark
> figure for
> > a lot of the subs you are familiar with. Is that correct or can anyone
> else remember that?
> > Also what was the Deep Workers new thruster rating thanks.
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
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