<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Hi Sean,</div><div>I am getting started on my motor install in my escape pod while I wait for rov and manipulator parts to arrive. When the motor assembly was in the aft head of Gamma, the motor was inside a 8 inch id pipe 1\2 in wall. That pipe protruded through the head and was capped on the wet end with a flat plate reinforced with gussets to the prop shaft tube. I want to use the same parts except, I want to shorten the 8 pipe so it only extends inside the sphere the depth of the magnetic coupler witch is about 4 inches. </div><div>My theory is that the additional pipe length serves no reinforcing purpose past a couple inches inside the hull. The section of sphere I am removing weighs 7 lbs and the 4 inch long pipe section weighs 15.82 lbs plus the pipe section has a flange for bolting the prop shaft assembly on. </div><div>Is my assumption that the additional length of pipe serves no purpose for reinforcing?</div><div>thanks</div><div>Hank</div></div></body></html>