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  • redboat219
    Admiral
    • Dec 2008
    • 2760

    it' complicated...

    Nitro powered submarine:



    Why make your life complicated?
    Last edited by redboat219; 01-11-2014, 08:33 AM.
    Make it simple, make strong, make it work!
  • Slats
    Vice Admiral
    • Aug 2008
    • 1776

    #2
    seen this before.
    Shame in the pursuit for a scale system the boat is far from it. Rube Goldberg award winner there. I'd love to see how the exhaust gets on, bit like watching a car accident, can't help but stare.
    For fun last week I tried hitting a killing a mosquito with a six iron....
    John Slater

    Sydney Australia

    You would not steal a wallet so don't steal people's livelihood.
    Think of that before your buy "cheap" pirated goods or download others work protected by copyright. Theft is theft.



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    • trout
      Admiral
      • Jul 2011
      • 3547

      #3
      Yes, saw this as well. It is not an area that I will go for, but if he gets it to work, it will be interesting. That being said he is a long way off.
      If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.

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      • He Who Shall Not Be Named
        Moderator
        • Aug 2008
        • 12333

        #4
        He won't. His energies would be better employed slaming his pee-pee into a door-jam.

        Crawl, stumble, walk, run, sprint. He just slithered to the floor.

        What a rambling assemblage of junk.

        Hope he reads this -- if he gets that thing to function, he can rub my face in it.

        M
        Who is John Galt?

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        • Peter W
          Captain
          • May 2011
          • 509

          #5
          Don't combustion engines get hot? …………and doesn't plastic melt?…………?

          Peter

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          • HvyCGN9
            Lieutenant Commander
            • Jan 2013
            • 187

            #6
            Had a look at that link............Ummm that can only end badly!! Its a waste of $$$, parts and time!

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            • redboat219
              Admiral
              • Dec 2008
              • 2760

              #7
              Next thing you'll know someone's building a nuclear powered one.

              Two decades ago David Hahn, from Detroit, was propelled into the public eye as ‘The Radioactive Boy Scout.’ Part boy genius, part dangerous misfit, at 17, he built a nuclear reactor in his mother’s potting shed.
              Last edited by redboat219; 01-12-2014, 02:14 AM.
              Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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              • He Who Shall Not Be Named
                Moderator
                • Aug 2008
                • 12333

                #8
                Originally posted by redboat219
                Next thing you'll know someone's building a nuclear powered one.

                http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...100-years.html
                Sheldon Cooper, call your office.



                M
                Who is John Galt?

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                • roedj
                  Captain
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 563

                  #9
                  Originally posted by He Who Shall Not Be Named
                  Sheldon Cooper, call your office.
                  M
                  M,

                  Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang Theory - got it - and NO I did not use Google.

                  Nuclear's too tricky. But wait.

                  If we we got a chunk of sodium metal and put it into a container filled with water and then mounted a bunch of thermocouples, wired in series, in the water/sodium mixture, we might, just might, be able to generate enough electricity to run a small motor.

                  Aside from the horribly violent explosions I think this is something you ought to look into. Well, not directly into...

                  Pardon me while I remove my tongue from my cheek,

                  Commander Cuckoo

                  P.S. On the upside, I'm willing to be that after a few of these experiments, the cat will no longer hang around.
                  Last edited by roedj; 01-12-2014, 05:50 PM. Reason: Caswell censor in brainless
                  Born in Detroit - where the weak are killed and eaten.

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                  • redboat219
                    Admiral
                    • Dec 2008
                    • 2760

                    #10
                    How about Hydrogen Peroxide passing through a Potassium Permanganate catalyst to generate steam to power a small steam engine.
                    Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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                    • alad61
                      Commander
                      • Jan 2012
                      • 476

                      #11
                      I had a look at his last video on YouTube. His theory is sound using a battery driven prop for submerged propulsion and the fuel driven motor for surface manouvering but he looks like he is running the surface prop direct which to me seems like it will hydrofoil on him...
                      Cheers,
                      Alec.


                      Reality is but a dream...
                      But to dream is a reality

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