[PSUBS-MAILIST] New submarine

[Jon Wallace]

I was going to caution you about the price as well but it sounds like you already have the shop financed.  Keep in mind that Karl Stanley had numerous donations and did not self fund ALL the tools, material, and manpower necessary to build IDABEL.  When someone states "it cost me $X" that doesn't necessarily translate to what it will cost someone else.

Again, I think fabrication is only part of the financials you have to think about.  Over time I suspect regular use of the sub in the depths it is designed for is going to cost factors more than the cost of the vessel itself.

Jon

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On Wed, 4/9/14, swaters at waters-ks.com <swaters at waters-ks.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New submarine
 To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 9:37 AM
 
 The good
 thing is I have a very capable shop now days. With every
 process of welding available, robotic plasma cutting and
 design software, a 8,000 crain/lift, metal lathe,
 hydrolic ban saw with coolant, and about every tool anyone
 could want, it makes life a lot easier. When I started my
 K-350 back 5 years ago I was a kid with a set of blue prints
 and a goal of one day having a submarine and that's it.
 I didn't know anything about submarines besides they
 used "ballast" to go up and down. I didn't
 know how to weld at all or even knew what a metal lathe was.
 And the only tools I had was a small tool bag with basic
 stuff my dad had given me from our family hardware store as
 a graduation present. The reason I don't want to build a
 1000' sub is it is not a big enough goal. I need
 something that is the difficulty level of starting with
 nothing and no idea to a k-350. I compare a k-350 to a 1000m
 (3300') sub with completely capable manipulator and
 tooling with very advanced technology to be a similar
 difficulty level and step. I also want to push the envelope
 for psubs about what we are capable of. Combined we have so
 much knowledge that if we all worked together, we could
 be producing ideas and inventions right up there
 with the big dogs. Hope this helps with everyone
 understanding my vision
  
 Thanks,
 Scott Waters