[PSUBS-MAILIST] gamma's arm

[Vance Bradley via Personal_Submersibles]

That sounds good.
Vance

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> On Sep 21, 2014, at 7:50 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Vance,
> How about digging up those plans and I will put it together, since Gamma is half way there already.
> Hank--------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 9/21/14, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] gamma's arm
> To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Received: Sunday, September 21, 2014, 7:34 PM
> 
> Hank 
> from memory I was going to mount the ball the
> other way around
> & push the Q through
> the spindle shaft to it give more range. 
> The beauty of it was you already had a ball
> & matching seals inside a housing.
> Alan
> 
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> 
>> On 22/09/2014,
> at 6:24 am, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Alan,
>> I agree, except
> you would not have the full range of a true Q ball arm. 
> You would have total range from side to side but not up and
> down.  I was genuinely amazed at how well the operator
> worked that thing.  They were picking up items on the
> fly!
> Hank-------------------------------------------
>> On Sun, 9/21/14, Alan via
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Subject:
> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] gamma's arm
>> To:
> "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> Received: Sunday, September 21, 2014, 7:11
> PM
>> 
>> Hank,
>> I
>> investigated the
> idea of modifying a large ball valve
>> to
> make a Q ball manipulator. It seemed doable
>> with the
>> right type
> of valve.
>> Alan
>> 
>> Sent from
>> my iPad
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>>> On
> 22/09/2014,
>> at 2:19 am, hank pronk via
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Vance,
>>> I
> removed the arm from gamma along with
> the valve and supporting stuff.  Turns out that package
> is
>> chunky, 108 lbs.  Mystery solved! 
> I have to admit, it was
>> a bad idea to
> mount the valve inside the ballast tank
> area.  A single drop of oil that leaks ends up fogging
> the
>> windows.  As part of my
> renovation, I am mounting the arm
>> and
> valve to a drop mechanism under the front ballast tank
>> along with a thruster package.  The
> entire assembly
>> including thrusters
> will be jettisoning.
>>> Dan Lance gave
> me a video to watch called
>> The dry
> divers, it shows the Q Ball arm in action.  That
>> little arm is quite impressive.  I would
> like to see the
>> plans for it.  I did
> not realize it actually used an actual
> Q ball.
>>> Hank
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