[PSUBS-MAILIST] Diesel Exhaust

[Jon Wallace]

The only documentation I know of is in the following publication (see page 10).
http://www.psubs.org/reference/publications/kittredgesubmarines.pdf

Kittredge controlled snorkel, exhaust, and cooling manually with valves.

When I picked up the K600 there was little left of the estate.  All the captain's tools and equipment had been removed and the house had been sold.  The buyers of the house were not "kittredge-aware" and wanted the yard cleaned up quickly, and the executor was in a hurry to do just that.  Transfer of the house to the new owners was occurring the next day and anything that wasn't picked up by myself or the neighbors went to the dump.  There were a couple of old K250 ballast tanks laying around and a couple of fiberglass hemispheres (24 inch diameter) which I assumed were used as prototypes until Kittredge got his acrylic domes.  I found the form Kittredge used for the K350 ballast tank and brought that home as well.

I do not believe there was any diesel documentation but can't say for sure.  I don't think George ever perfected diesel in the K-boats to his own satisfaction and he likely would not have created plans until he was satisfied with the prototyping.

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On Fri, 10/11/13, vbra676539 at aol.com <vbra676539 at aol.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Diesel Exhaust
 To: personal_submersibles at psubs.org
 Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 6:50 PM
 
 
 That makes
 it the last survivor up there. I wonder if we can track the
 kid and see if there was anything left of the drawings and
 whatnot.
 
 Vance