[PSUBS-MAILIST] MK-101's lower units

[Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles]

 Hi Rick,
I recommend purchasing the three bottle kit and using them in sequence.  One is for heavy scratches, one is for light scratches, and the third is just a protective coating.  I know Hank did some polishing but can't recall if he used Novus or something else.  
My rebuild is on track but I can't decide if I'm 97, 98, or 99% done...however it's somewhere in that range.  Kittredge had a contract to build five K-600 subs but he and the buyer did not see eye-to-eye during fabrication of the first one and after threatening each other repeatedly with lawsuits eventually agreed to cut the contract to deliver the ONE vessel under construction and never talk to each other again.  The sales price was $101,000 in 1979.  I have no dive logs or records available to me however Kittredge had the vessel tested to 385 psi by the US Navy in Annapolis before delivering it to the buyer.  I intend to take a careful and calculated approach to determining it's current capability since too many years have passed to make any assumptions.
Jon

    On Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 08:54:14 PM EDT, Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:  
 
 Hi Jon, How's your build coming along? Sounds like quite a project. Isn't the K-600 you are rebuilding the only one that Kitteridge built? If not, who had it before you and how deep has it gone?On another note, I looked up the polishing compound that you recommended Novus, and it comes in a single, double or triple bottle offer. Do you remember which one you used?
Rick

  
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