<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>Mark,</span></div><div><span>Thank you, I am talking with a weld testing company to rush my sphere in for testing ahead of the pressure test.  I admit I am </span>nervous,  I am somewhat unconventional.</div><div>Hank</div> <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 Saturday, November 19, 2016 7:02 PM, Marc de Piolenc via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br></font></div>  <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Congratulations! It takes both skill and patience to achieve that. It's <br clear="none">a very good augury for the rest of the project.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best,<br clear="none">Marc<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 11/20/2016 12:06 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br clear="none">> I spent days fitting my conical port to the seat-I did a vacuum test on<br clear="none">> the sphere and removed the retaining ring and low pressure seal.  The<br clear="none">> port fits so well that it holds vacuum, and it is not even greased yet.<br clear="none">>  Thats what we here in Canada call a gynaecologist fit!<br clear="none">> Hank<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Archivale catalog: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.archivale.com/catalog" target="_blank">http://www.archivale.com/catalog</a><br clear="none">Polymath weblog: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.archivale.com/weblog" target="_blank">http://www.archivale.com/weblog</a><br clear="none">Translations (ProZ profile): <a shape="rect" href="http://www.proz.com/profile/639380" target="_blank">http://www.proz.com/profile/639380</a><br clear="none">Translations (BeWords profile): <a shape="rect" href="http://www.bewords.com/Marc-dePiolenc" target="_blank">http://www.bewords.com/Marc-dePiolenc</a><br clear="none">Ducted fans: <a shape="rect" href="http://massflow.archivale.com/" target="_blank">http://massflow.archivale.com/</a><div class="yqt0297333779" id="yqtfd36712"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div>  </div> </div>  </div></div></body></html>