<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><DIV>Alec, I've already pulled a vacuum on the pressure hull, so I'm confident about everything sealing. My first time going down I will probably cinch the hatch down with my ratchet straps until I get a feel for the depth needed for an adequate seal on the hatch. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV><BR><BR>--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<BR><BR>From: Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] cabin pressure<BR>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:16:20 -0400<BR><BR></DIV><DIV dir="ltr">Hi Brian,<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>D'you have an over-pressure valve? I just stick the shop vac hose over the valve (which is slightly smaller diameter than the hose) and that'll pull a small vacuum in the cabin. If you can see a cabin pressure gauge through a viewport, just pull the vacuum and then see if it persists over say ten minutes after removing the shop vac. If it does, your hull is air-tight.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Alec</DIV></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <SPAN dir="ltr"><<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hi All, I did an experiment today with my hatch because I'm trying to get a handle on the sealing capability of my hatch. My hatch dogs are on a wheel that I turn to secure them, they are only a friction progressive seal, where the dogs push the hatch down tight from the underneath the rim of the hatch rim. I'm concerned that if I were lingering right at where the water level meets the hatch ring that there might not be enough pressure to seal and I would have a leak. I also wanted to see my cabin pressure gauge move as well so I brought a scuba tank inside the cabin to build up pressure inside. I used some ratchet straps to secure the hatch from the inside and was able to build up some positive pressure inside the cabin. Then I tried just holding onto the hatch closure wheel with my weight to see if I could get a pressure increase that way, which I did. Do you experienced submariners ever have an initial leak at the hatch before there is sufficient pressure to seal? It would be nice to do a negative pressure like Nuytco does but I can't figure out how to do that while I'm inside the sub.</DIV><SPAN><FONT color="#888888"><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>
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