[PSUBS-MAILIST] Steinke hood

Wed Apr 23 13:58:00 EDT 2014

Difficult to say. On the unit I have some of the tempoary glues to fix
for example zippers covers gives way. 
The neck skirt was extremly hard and the water signal maker tends to
leak. They are pretty old. From the 90ies or so. 

But on a price of 15 USD - means less than 1% of the original price I
would suggest the following formular: 

Unit to use x 2, plus one training unit,  puls 1 for destroy test, plus
a additional amout for later sale for Psubs friends. 

For a 3 person sub this means 3 x 2 +1 + 1 + 2 = 10 units = 150 USD. 
Or in case of real use 50 USD per life. 
say remainig life after successfull emergency exist is 40 years this
means : 50 /40 = 1.25 USD per year of life. 
But it depents stroong on how old are you and how often you have to
emergency exit your sub.. 

Statistic is nice.. isn't it ? 

Even if the units have problems: Bring them to a cpompany built rubber
boats or duiver suits. Strip them an rebuild them. 
Will be much cheaper than to purchase new ones.

By the way I order one forward. test them, calculate the fixing cost and
order than 9 more. 

If you can choose ask the guy if he can look for the samp outside of the
bag and select younger building years...

vbr Carsten

"via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> schrieb: 
Carsten,
I've wondered how long a Steinke hood is good in storage.  Do any of the
components deteriorate over time and require replacement?
Thanks,
Jim

In a message dated 4/22/2014 12:50:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
personal_submersibles at psubs.org writes:
Thank you for the info Carsten.
-Scott Waters

Sent from my U.S. Cellular© Smartphone

""Carsten Standfuß " via Personal_Submersibles"
<personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
Hi Scott - Check them. 

If the neckshirt is to hard to get it over: 
Bring it to a divesuit shop and let them make and glue new skirt from
neopren.   

If they have a capsule with water paint maker - remove this. 
The capsule tend to leak or break if old and can be nicly couloring your
interior. 

One unit can be marked on the outside bag as training unit. 

I did it with my 10 units that way. 

Video with training unit in action at 00:20 + 03.00 + 4:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mvFelmuKA

vbr Carsten

"via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> schrieb: 
Scott, here's the beauty of the venerable Psubs archive:
http://www.psubs.org/mlist/archive/0504/msg00219.html
This is from 2005 thanks to Alec.
-Jim

In a message dated 4/22/2014 9:51:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
personal_submersibles at psubs.org writes:
Does anyone know where to get / or how to make a Steinke hood? I thought
I saw Cliff had one for the R-300. That would be a really nice safety
addition to my sub.
Thanks,
Scott Waters

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