<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Guys,<br></div>Just an observation here. How difficult would it be to place the thruster into a vacumm chamber, fill up the unit with oil, run the vacumm for a little bit to draw out the air from the seal area, top off the oil as needed and close up the thruster. Then no air exists in the thruster and is ready to be placed into service. Doug Jackson uses a similar method to pot epoxy into his electronics before it cures so there are now air bubbles. Just a thought..<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best Regards,<br>David Colombo<br><img src="http://static.squarespace.com/static/533310a9e4b0fba62008a464/t/5339c1f2e4b041bac4e25d1b/1396294132055/?format=500w" height="110" width="200"><br>804 College Ave<br>Santa Rosa, CA. 95404<br>(707) 536-1424<br><a href="http://www.SeaQuestor.com" target="_blank">www.SeaQuestor.com</a><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Just correcting myself. I said it would only take less than a psi</div><div>to squeeze the existing tube, but would it??? Yes if you just squeezed</div><div>it from side to side with your fingers, but If the water is squeezing evenly </div><div>around the tube, perhaps it would take a lot of psi to get any crushing </div><div>of the tube that would cause equalisation. </div><div>Would be a good pressure chamber experiment.</div><span class=""><div>Alan<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 10/06/2015, at 2:54 am, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>If you just had a nipple in the top of the motor & a tube coming</div><div>off it & going straight down it would work. But Snoopy's side</div><div>thrusters rotate, so that would complicate things.</div><div>I doubt it would solve the slow motor problem because it must</div><div>take less than 1 psi to squeeze the existing tube & equalise ( if</div><div>there are no major air voids)</div><div>Alan <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 10/06/2015, at 1:18 am, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div>The oil can't float past the air pocket between the oil and water<br>Hank</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div>
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