Re: pressure hull design (Fwd)

[Bill <heinzind@cadvision.com>]

At 09:49 AM 98/09/20 GMT, you wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:18:34 -0600, Bill Vandella <skylar@ccinet.ab.ca>
>wrote:
>
>> if you took an apple and cut it in half, then half again, you
>> would have 4 identical pieces looking like the smile of a cheshire cat
>> if you turned it sideways... take the hull, and cut the right curves out
>> of the side, so from the side, it looked like a big fish with its mouth
>> open, then weld the two together...
>
>I understand. 
>
>You basically want to take a 90 degree section from each side of a piece of
>the pipe. When you're done, from the side, it will look like an elongated
>hemisphere, and from the top, it will look like a wedge.
>
>If you think about it from the top, it's easier.
>
>-----------
>   \**/
>    \/           Pieces cut
>    /\
>   /**\
>-----------
>
>You're going to cut a "X" through the pipe, where the segments of the X are
>at 90 degrees to each other. You will use the sections marked in the above
>diagram with **.
>
>Is that correct?
>
>Later,
>Jon
>
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>
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>

That sounds about right.. It is hard to visualize, but that is close.. I am
going to use a piece a little bigger than what you would get by just
cutting it with an X  but the idea is right....
bill