<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443030461917_4411"><span>Alec,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443030461917_4411" dir="ltr"><span>I have a video on youtube showing the ring being machined. That is the land for the pod as well as reinforcing for the hull. The ring is 2in thick 26in OD and 20in ID It is that size because that is what my lathe can handle :-)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443030461917_4411" dir="ltr"><span>Hank</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 11:39 AM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3901340798"><div><div dir="ltr">Hank, when you cut open the hull, what is the land for this sphere going to look like? Are you welding on a big flange or something? Just curious, as you need something to resist the sphere squeezing the opening to a larger diameter and also something to bolt onto.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Best,</div><div><br clear="none">Alec</div></div><div class="yiv3901340798gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3901340798gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv3901340798gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv3901340798yqt0809101586" id="yiv3901340798yqt82638"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div><span>Thank You David and James,</span></div><div><span>James, I posted a slide show on youtube, it is the second slide show, the first was a test :-) under Hank Pronk</span></div><div dir="ltr">I am taking Gamma off the trailer today to start the process of installing the pod. I will not say what I have to do to spare Vance shedding a tear. I to have trouble with it. Pity I could not sell it and build from scratch, but thats the way it goes. </div><span class="yiv3901340798HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div dir="ltr">Hank</div><div><div class="yiv3901340798h5"><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div> <br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:20 AM, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Looks great Hank. Such a genius idea. Can you post some more pics if you have any?<br clear="none">Thanks</div><div>James</div></div><div><br clear="none"><div><div>On 23 September 2015 at 00:39, David Colombo via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Congrats Hank. Pretty cool project.</div><div><div>
<br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 12:41 PM Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote 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 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><div><span>Congratulations Hank,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>you will be looking forward to the situation where you</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>get trapped, so you can try it out for real:)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Alan</span></div><br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> personal_submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6:42 AM<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Deep test<br clear="none"> </font> </div></div></div></div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div><br clear="none"><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><div>Just driving home from my deep test to 800 feet with my pod. All went perfect, those mig welds held up just fine. Wish I could have found deeper water, I had enough line for 1000 feet. Also the hatch is only held on with vacuum for the last few days.<br clear="none">Hank</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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