<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks guys.</div><div> </div><div>I have already fixed the problem. Ive just stuck the widows in now with sikaflex. I didn't want to do that to start with as I wanted them to be able to come off for maintenance. But now they are stuck forever.....</div><div> </div><div>I used a different method for filling the aft motor. I have 2 tubes coming from the potted original shaft that act as the fill and vent. With the talk recently of "zero bubble tolerance", I filled the motor as much as I could, then filled an ice cream tub with oil and stuck the 2 pipes under. I could then flush out the remaining few air bubbles and get the plugs in all under the oil. Zero bubble. Also the vents I put in the side thrusters allowed for proper filling. I am confident I have no air at all in any of the 3 motors.</div><div> </div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2015 at 12:40, hank pronk 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"><br>
James,<br>
A good lesson here for all, it is perfectly normal to have failed dive trips. It really sucks, but there is always next week.<br>
I am sure you are in good company, I will bet even Nuytco has bailed on a dive for similar reasons. I am sure we all have a story or two of failed dives.<br>
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Hank--------------------------------------------<br>
On Mon, 7/6/15, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.<br>
<span> To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>
</span> Received: Monday, July 6, 2015, 5:04 AM<br>
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Hi<br>
All, <br>
I had a failure of a day on Sat. I put the boat in, and<br>
it had a<br>
leak. Not into the pressure hull, so it wasn’t a<br>
complete failure, but<br>
the leak was from the forward main tank. The nearly<br>
useless windows that I put on the forward tank were leaking<br>
air. Not just a little bit which I could have put up with<br>
it, but loads. The boat was diving quicker than venting<br>
normally. <br>
I<br>
pulled it out and went around tightening them up. Put it<br>
back in and it didn't make any<br>
difference. It<br>
was strange as they have been perfectly ok before. I think<br>
the problem is that on Friday while I was prepping the boat<br>
for diving, I went around and tightened the bolts. It must<br>
have broken the seals. Anyway. I could have<br>
possibly winged it by running with a reduced main ballast,<br>
but as<br>
I was heading into the open sea, I thought I best be<br>
sensible and call it off.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
So<br>
It was in for about 10 minutes. Pulled it out and was home<br>
by 8:30, very<br>
disappointed. Spent the afternoon sticking them in with<br>
Sikaflex and moaning. Hope these pics make it through. You can<br>
just see the air spilling from the widows in the second<br>
picture and the boat is going down nose<br>
first. Kind RegardsJames <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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