[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.

[glen brown via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi James
I am busy with my k350 mbts at the moment trying to copy Dan's plug, mould,
product. I was thinking of using a section of poly carb sheet attached to
the top of my fore mbt.
Any comments?

Thanks Glen

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:04 AM, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
> I had a failure of a day on Sat.  I put the boat in, and it had a leak.
> Not into the pressure hull, so it wasn’t a complete failure, but the leak
> was from the forward main tank.  The nearly useless windows that I put on
> the forward tank were leaking air.  Not just a little bit which I could
> have put up with it, but loads.  The boat was diving quicker than venting
> normally.
>
>
>
> I pulled it out and went around tightening them up.  Put it back in and it
> didn't make any difference.
>
>
>
> It was strange as they have been perfectly ok before.  I think the problem
> is that on Friday while I was prepping the boat for diving, I went around
> and tightened the bolts.  It must have broken the seals.
>
>
>
> Anyway.  I could have possibly winged it by running with a reduced main
> ballast, but as I was heading into the open sea, I thought I best be
> sensible and call it off.
>
>
>
> So It was in for about 10 minutes.  Pulled it out and was home by 8:30,
> very disappointed.
>
>
>
> Spent the afternoon sticking them in with Sikaflex and moaning.
>
>
>
> Hope these pics make it through.  You can just see the air spilling from
> the widows in the second picture and the boat is going down nose first.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
>
>
>
>
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