<div dir="ltr"><div>Brian,</div><div> </div><div>On my sub, I am constantly moving weights around internally to balance the boat and help vent the main tanks. If I could move the dropweights with a handle, like a plane trim control it would be easier. I am going to make this a feature of my new boat. Just a thought..</div><div>regards</div><div>James</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2016 at 04:20, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi All,</div><div> I'm getting excited to be working on my new drop weight design ! What I've decided to do is to make a whole lot of 1 inch diameter lead balls which will fall out when I open a door on the bottom of a rather large holding container. Since my drop weight shaft is at an angle instead of straight down I didn't want too much angular force on the shaft, so this way most of the weight of the lead will be carried by the holding container. I know it's going to be a lot of extra work making the molds and everything but I've always like the idea of the lead shot type of ballast release. Turns out that you need 5X the diameter of the ball diameter for the exit hole where the lead falls out. I'm in the process of building a sphere making tool which I will also be able to utilize for the cue ball arm device. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> </div><div>Brian</div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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