<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Ha Ha, no hole in the ground , I was dying to try that! I ended up marking off the blunt end of the sub with a big sheet of light weight plywood to get the shape that it needed to be so it would fit on. Laid that on the ground so I knew where the edge had to be. Then I got the ellipse </FONT></FONT><BR>that I wanted , which was at first a circle between the top and bottom, but the side is a little wider and has a shape to it that sticks out , so that area had to be transitioned . Anyway, once I got the ellipse that I wanted I made numerous half ellipses, actually at first I made two full ellipses and placed them at 90 degrees to one another. So I placed 12 of the half ellipses , 3 in each quadrant . So I didn't want to use a shit load of foam filling the entire thing with foam so I built out to the edge of each of the hexadecagon so that way I just used a much less volume of foam. So it was quite irregular once the foam was put in, but it wasn't hard to shape it using a template to make sure I was on track. Once I finally got it shaped I gave it a coat of polyester resin, the after that had cured I covered the entire thing with clear packing tape. The I smeared my beeswax skin cream that I make ( basically a water in oil emulsion) over the entire thing. Then I fiberglassed it . No problem.<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New nose cone</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 19:52:04 +0000 (UTC)</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><DIV></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr">Brian, how did you mould it? A hole in the ground? Block of foam?</DIV><DIV dir="ltr">Hank</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Hank, It was a bit tricky, especially since I had to do it away from where the sub is parked. </FONT></FONT><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Brian<BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">To: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New nose cone</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 08:19:20 +0000 (UTC)</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><DIV></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr">Brian, looking good, it must have been tricky.</DIV><DIV dir="ltr">Hank</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2">Thanks Alan ! I'm redoing my drop weights as well, they were not well placed.</FONT><DIV><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2">Brian<BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">From: Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">To: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New nose cone</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 02:41:51 +0000 (UTC)</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV><DIV style="font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Looks good Brian, </DIV><DIV>it's evolving! </DIV><DIV>Alan</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><DIV><DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">Here is my new nose cone, still have some things to do with it . Putting an access hole in the bottom, and some hole at the top. Along with some additional support. And I will be ordering a big piece of that rov foam , 680lbs additional positive buoyancy. and I'm doing a bunch of other things as well.<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Cheers !</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</A><BR></DIV>
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