<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Vance,</span></div><div><span>Thank you, it only took me two tries to make the assembly and 5 tries to make the shaft. Rookie machinist and all. :-)</span></div><div><span>Hank </span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:36:27 PM, Alan <alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1907063128"><div><div>Carsten,</div><div>Your friends in Hamburg wouldn't be happy with
the get wet solution.</div><div>As an after thought on my ambient, I put a AOP valve above my</div><div>head & through the dome. It works the opposite way round, so that if</div><div>I dive too quick & the hull doesn't equalise, I get water on my head.</div><div>The hull is equalised with divers regulators so better to get wet</div><div>than the regulator diaphragm rupturing. The manual operation of the</div><div>AOP let's me flood up to the top of the dome in an emergency exit,</div><div>as there may be too much force on the latches to open them with</div><div>air in the dome. </div><div>Alan</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none">Sent from my iPad</div><div><br clear="none">On 13/12/2013, at 7:33 AM, " " <<a href="mailto:MerlinSub@t-online.de" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:MerlinSub@t-online.de">MerlinSub@t-online.de</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote
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<div><span><i>If you have an over-pressure valve handle obstructing
the Alan</i></span></div>
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of the hatch latch handle, it would need to be</i></span></div>
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loaded or you would create the problem of the possibility</i></span></div>
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the valve open later on.<br clear="none"></i><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yes, and if you dive with a open valve
you get wet<br clear="none">learn to close it and learn to read you "pre-dive" checklist.
<br clear="none"><br clear="none">:-O <br clear="none"><br clear="none">SL not required an blocking mechanism on the
hatch - just an <br clear="none">simple spring loaded automatic overpressure valve.
<br clear="none">Because of the automatic there is no need to block the hatch. <br clear="none">The air
sound of the working valve is a clear signal not to open the hatch.<br clear="none">The
function of the valve should be anyway mention in the written manual.
<br clear="none"><br clear="none">very best regards<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Carsten<br clear="none"></span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1907063128yqt2406713824" id="yiv1907063128yqtfd73887">
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