[PSUBS-MAILIST] thruster compensation

Fri Feb 17 16:50:35 EST 2017

Don't know about the delron, but the pvc can.  When I had my visit with Dr Nuytten, he told me about an instace when they built plastic arms on the Rover sub and the pistons got stuck from water absorption.  They had to sleeve the tubes with SS.Hank 

    On Friday, February 17, 2017 2:36 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Hank,   Are you saying the delron will absorb water or the pvc?  or both?    I could use an aluminum disk instead of delron.   Flooding here right now, may have to get in the sub! Brian

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:18:41 +0000 (UTC)

Brian,Don't be tempted to use plastic for anything with a piston.  The plastic will absorb water and change size, your piston will get stuck.Hank 

    On Friday, February 17, 2017 1:03 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Alan,        I was thinking it would be easy to make a compensator just using a pvc pipe and then machine a delron disk ( you wouldn't need the piston rod)  with a o ring , the disk could move freely inside the pvc pipe and the pvc pipe would give you the ability to glue fittings on the ends which would give you a threaded connection to attach a hose line to. Brian

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:57:40 +0000 (UTC)

Brian,yes true, but if I can hack something that's already out thereall the better. That's what Hank is doing with his pneumaticcylinder. The screw cap on the items I posted is an advantage for filling& retaining the spring, but would be a pain to make. Those professionally manufactured compensators cost a fortune.Alan

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Alan,   You could probably make a plexi glass unit like that, you could machine a aluminum disk for the piston.  You would be able to observe what is happening!   Brian

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:34:31 +0000 (UTC)

Hank,why waste a good pneumatic cylinder when you can haveone of these. (sauce syringe) All you need is a stainless spring to put inside it foroverpressure, a compatible hose fitting, & maybe replace the pistono-ring. I have only seen them up to 100ml in volume & aren't sure whether that would be enough.Alan

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Alan,The port is open to the water and acts on the piston directly.Hank 

    On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3:44 PM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Hank,in hindsight there is a problem in that when the external water pressurepushes on the rod & tries to make the piston move down the cylinderthere is a vacuum created behind the cylinder that needs filling with oil.Not sure if that's the right terminology.If water can move in to that void through one of the ports, it would work. Or the rod & piston were the same diameter. You may have already thought through this. I encountered this when trying to compensate linear actuators.Alan

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On 16/02/2017, at 11:25 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

Brian,
The piston is mid way.Alan,I was going to install an internal spring to create internal pressure but I only have one seal oriented to keep oil in.  I will try this first and see where it leads.I have tried this in the past on Gamma's prop shaft and it did not work- I am sure it is because of the seal orientation.Hank 

    On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3:21 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Hank,  where is the piston situated in the cylinder upon start up of operation ?   Half way ? Brian

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:32:47 +0000 (UTC)

I have just installed my two additional motors on Gamma that are mounted to the manipulator assembly borrowed from Elementary 3,000.  To compensate them I used a single air cylinder 1.5 in bore with 4 in stroke as the compensation bladder.  The cylinder is filled with light hydraulic oil and the motors are filled with WD40.  There are hydraulic hoses connecting the cylinder to the two motors.  I reversed one seal in each motor so the one seal keeps water out and one seal keeps oil in.  There is a tiny bit of air in the system but that makes no difference because the cylinder piston has enough travel to compress the air.  I think oil enters compensated motors because the oil spinning creates pressure from centrifugal force and the seals are oriented to keep water out.  The oil can then escape, that is why I have turned one seal around.  I will be testing in a month or so, and we will see, I guess.Hank_______________________________________________Personal_Submersibles mailing listPersonal_Submersibles at psubs.orghttp://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles
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