<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 class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:48 PM, 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, 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 class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> </div><div>Brian</div><div> </div><div> </div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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