[PSUBS-MAILIST] gamma's arm

[hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles]

Vance,
How about digging up those plans and I will put it together, since Gamma is half way there already.
Hank--------------------------------------------
On Sun, 9/21/14, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] gamma's arm
 To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 Received: Sunday, September 21, 2014, 7:34 PM
 
 Hank 
 from memory I was going to mount the ball the
 other way around
 & push the Q through
 the spindle shaft to it give more range. 
 The beauty of it was you already had a ball
 & matching seals inside a housing.
 Alan
 
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 my iPad
 
 > On 22/09/2014,
 at 6:24 am, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Alan,
 > I agree, except
 you would not have the full range of a true Q ball arm. 
 You would have total range from side to side but not up and
 down.  I was genuinely amazed at how well the operator
 worked that thing.  They were picking up items on the
 fly!
 >
 Hank-------------------------------------------
 > On Sun, 9/21/14, Alan via
 Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 wrote:
 > 
 > Subject:
 Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] gamma's arm
 > To:
 "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 > Received: Sunday, September 21, 2014, 7:11
 PM
 > 
 > Hank,
 > I
 > investigated the
 idea of modifying a large ball valve
 > to
 make a Q ball manipulator. It seemed doable
 > with the
 > right type
 of valve.
 > Alan
 > 
 > Sent from
 > my iPad
 > 
 >> On
 22/09/2014,
 > at 2:19 am, hank pronk via
 Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 > wrote:
 >> 
 >> Vance,
 >> I
 removed the arm from gamma along with
 >
 the valve and supporting stuff.  Turns out that package
 is
 > chunky, 108 lbs.  Mystery solved! 
 I have to admit, it was
 > a bad idea to
 mount the valve inside the ballast tank
 >
 area.  A single drop of oil that leaks ends up fogging
 the
 > windows.  As part of my
 renovation, I am mounting the arm
 > and
 valve to a drop mechanism under the front ballast tank
 > along with a thruster package.  The
 entire assembly
 > including thrusters
 will be jettisoning.
 >> Dan Lance gave
 me a video to watch called
 > The dry
 divers, it shows the Q Ball arm in action.  That
 > little arm is quite impressive.  I would
 like to see the
 > plans for it.  I did
 not realize it actually used an actual
 >
 Q ball.
 >> Hank
 >
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