Just don’t drop it on your foot otherwise you will find
how BIG it is!
R/Jay
Respectfully,
Jay K. Jeffries
Andros Is., Bahamas
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
From:
owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of Brent
Hartwig
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:38 PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Trouble with Bubbles
Say that three times fast after three shots
of rum. ;)'
Frank I need to correct myself. I should say that a couple of good
polished on coats of Rain X should do the trick on acrylic. This guess is based
on my applying one light coat to the front interior glass panel of a 10 gallon
aquarium that had been dry for a long time. I had always noticed that
when I first set up a new aquarium or one that had been dry for some time that
I had to wipe off the tiny bubbles. I think he tiny bubbles hold on to tiny
voids and/or imperfections in the glass surface that the Rain X smooths over.
http://www.frappr.com/?a=viewphoto&id=4001713&pid=7686344
I've seen a whipper to clean algae and other things off a dome for a
submersible research station. So you could do some thing like that as well, but
that would require a thru hull and I suspect that Rain-X will do the
trick. Another option that might work better is a couple of water jets
that blow water at the surface you want the bubbles to be removed from.
Ben from the Bionic Dolphin has a friend that works for the company that makes
Rain-X, and he said he would get back to me months ago as to what his friend
said about whether Rain-X would damage acrylic or not. I know MEK makes
the surface all pretty. ;)' Ya don't use MEK. NEVER
EVER
I saw that picture of the submersible research station in the Stachiw book last
night.
Yep you heard me right I'm reading the Stachiw book. How cool is
that. I figured we could have a ticker take parade. with mermaids
and all.
Some
how I thought it would be bigger.
Your
resident bubble dreamer ;)'
Regards,
Szybowski
From: brenthartwig@hotmail.com
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] All Clear Acrylic K-250 & K-350 MBT's
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 11:51:48 -0700
I know a couple of good polished on coats of Rain X will do the trick pretty
well. I'll have to ask Karl what he does on Idabel's outer clear front
MBT. I don't know why tiny bubbles on a outer, free flooding
acrylic surface, would be any more of a problem then any outer surface of a
acrylic viewport.
Your
resident pipe dreamer ;)'
Regards,
Szybowski
From:
ShellyDalg@aol.com
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:50:11 -0400
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] All Clear Acrylic K-250 & K-350 MBT's
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
One problem was the tiny bubbles cloud the exterior plexi
shield/dome/mbt Frank D.