<div dir="ltr">Hi James<div>Saddle tanks sound good ,but i have wondered how much they will effect towing . Thinking as a option of an removeable fibreglass skin say 300mm from pressure hull forming some kind of deck.?</div><div>regards</div><div>Glen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:54 PM, James Frankland 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="ltr"><div>Hi Glen,</div><div> </div><div>If I were doing it again, I wouldn't bother with the standard MBTs at all. I would make saddle tanks like on the "Nemo" sub. For better surface stability and enclosed, so you don't burp air. Im going to change my boat over the winter to have tanks like that instead, or probably as well. Hank has done the same on his Gamma.</div><div> </div><div>Im not sure what you mean with the poly carb sheet attached to the top of the fore mbt? Is this for a deck of some sort? </div><div> </div><div>I paid a boatbuilding company to make the fibreglass tanks for my boat. They made the plug out of a load of blue builders foam sheets stuck together and shaped that. Then made the mould from that and layed the glass into it. The same as Dan H did I think.</div><div> </div><div>regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>James</div><div> </div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 July 2015 at 11:37, glen brown 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="ltr">Hi James<div>I am busy with my k350 mbts at the moment trying to copy Dan's plug, mould, product. I was thinking of using a section of poly carb sheet attached to the top of my fore mbt.</div><div>Any comments?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Glen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:04 AM, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">
I had a failure of a day on Sat. I put the boat in, and it had a
leak. Not into the pressure hull, so it wasn’t a complete failure, but
the leak was from the forward main tank. The nearly useless windows that I put on the forward tank were leaking air. Not just a little bit which I could have put up with it, but loads. The boat was diving quicker than venting normally.
</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">I pulled it out and went around tightening them up. Put it back in and it didn't make any difference.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">It was strange as they have been perfectly ok before. I think the problem is that on Friday while I was prepping the boat for diving, I went around and tightened the bolts. It must have broken the seals. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Anyway. </font></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">I could have possibly winged it by running with a reduced main ballast, but as
I was heading into the open sea, I thought I best be sensible and call it off.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">So
It was in for about 10 minutes. Pulled it out and was home by 8:30, very
disappointed.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Spent the afternoon sticking them in with Sikaflex and moaning.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Hope these pics make it through. You can just see the air spilling from the widows in the second picture and the boat is going down nose first.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Kind Regards</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">James</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><img width="535" height="401" src="cid:ii_ibrojmm40_14e629a8e3c18489"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><img width="376" height="501" src="cid:ii_ibrokjpc1_14e629b343b4ca72"><br><br></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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