[PSUBS-MAILIST] McQueen K-250 Hull Completion

[T Novak via Personal_Submersibles]

Too bad about the connection to that song.  Yellow is actually a good hi-viz colour to paint a personal submarine (sure beats black), but yup, people just can't  leave it alone.  A SportSub in Britain was actually deliberately painted yellow because that was the owner's favourite song.  Happily, no one sings that song when they see my black sub.  Even so, I get too many comments about it being "cute", and that will likely not change when I paint it some other colour (ship side gray, perhaps).  Orange is good, but I agree with Scott, it better be really orange.

Contraption?  My favourite question from Joe Public, "Are you even allowed to have a submarine."  That question would be even worse if it came from some official wearing a Smokey-the-Bear hat.

Tim

 

From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
Sent: July-30-15 6:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] McQueen K-250 Hull Completion

 

No Kidding,

Yellow is my favourite colour, but everyone seems to think it is funny to sing that stupid song.  I find people take the sub more seriously if it is white.  

I had one A-hole at the dock a few days ago say "what is that contraption"  lets just say I am glad no one recorded my reply, I am a bit embarrassed  with my lack of tact  at times. :-) 

Hank

 

 

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 7:09 PM, "swaters at waters-ks.com via Personal_Submersibles <mailto:swaters at waters-ks.com%20via%20Personal_Submersibles> " <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > wrote:

 

Steve,

I totally agree not painting it yellow. You wouldn't believe how many people sing that stupid freaking yellow submarine song. Mine was supposed to be orange. Word of advice, check the color of the paint before you leave the store.

Thanks,

Scott Waters

 

 

 

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From: Steve McQueen via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > 
Date: 07/30/2015 8:02 PM (GMT-06:00) 
To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > 
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] McQueen K-250 Hull Completion 

While I understand it will probably never be "done". I just dropped my hull at the welder for help with the last few welds. I am now considering it done and have hopefully thought through it enough so I won't need to add future penetrations as it evolves. 

A big milestone for me and I am looking forward the next step of priming and painting (not yellow).

Thanks to all who helped get me to this point!

Steve

 

 

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