[PSUBS-MAILIST] Rubber Glove Penetrator

[JimToddPsub at aol.com]

Alec,
Did you take any pictures of the glove or any of the other  "innovations"?  
 Any guesses as to what material they used that didn't  melt the glove 
while it was setting up and curing?
Jim
 
 
In a message dated 9/9/2013 12:05:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
alecsmyth at gmail.com writes:

Douglas,  


Last year I was on vacation and went over to look at a bunch of these at  a 
dive concession. Yours looks impeccable by comparison. You wouldn't believe 
 the things they'd jury-rigged! My favorite was a kitchen glove penetrator. 
 They got a rubber kitchen glove, poked cables out the fingers, and filled 
the  whole thing with resin. They'd also used kitchen gloves fingers to make 
 "housings" for switches. 


Best,


Alec



On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Douglas Suhr <_spiritofcalypso at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:spiritofcalypso at gmail.com) > wrote:

Hi Scott, thanks! The water temperature was about 72 degrees  and the 
visibility was 3 to 4 feet. Chautauqua lake is fairly close to us,  unfortunately 
it is not the best waters for diving. The water is very green  with algae 
and the seaweed is a constant fight until you get into the deep  water. The 
lake serves well for testing purposes though.   


The only modification we made was a new pressure cap for the motor  
housing. This submersible's thruster is not pressure compensated but instead  
sealed in a 1-atm container. This is of course fine as long as you don't  have 
any leaking, which unfortunately we did when we first purchased the  sub. We 
ended up having to completely remove the motor from the housing,  clean and 
lubricate the motor and replace the relay. Then we had to discover  the leak 
point. Fortunately it wasn't the shaft seal, only the access cap on  the 
housing. We modified a new cap from one we purchased at a marine supply  house 
and haven't experienced any more water intrusion since. I'll tell you  
though, after all this mess I am much more in favor of pressure compensating  
than trying to seal a 1-atm container. 


Hope you are coming along nicely with Trustworthy. I can't wait to see  her 
in person at the convention! The photos look very nice, but you know  they 
can never really speak for the real thing. ~ Douglas S.  

 
 


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, <_swaters at waters-ks.com_ 
(mailto:swaters at waters-ks.com) > wrote:


Awesome Douglas!,
How was the water? Did you have to do any mods to the submersible to  get 
it working?
Thanks,
Scott Waters 
 

 
 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST]  Labor Day Diving
From: Douglas Suhr <_spiritofcalypso at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:spiritofcalypso at gmail.com) >
Date: Sun, September  08, 2013 10:34 am
To: "_personal_submersibles at psubs.org_ 
(mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org) " <_personal_submersibles at psubs.org_ 
(mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org) >

Hi folks, hope you are all as excited as I am about this  year's 
convention, I think it is going to be awesome! Before the  convention I wanted to show 
you my first ambient submersible that I  purchased on ebay back in '04 so I 
took her out diving over the labor  day weekend on a check dive. The photos 
are posted in the album "SNARK  II" under my name on the site. I think 
you'll find the last few photos  of the album to be quite comical as well!   


I have also posted an album called "K-250 then and now" which  features 
photos of the old K-boat down in Marathon from 1996 as well as  2013. 
Interesting what 17 years will do to an exposed sub. ~ Douglas  S. 



 
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