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  • redboat219
    Admiral
    • Dec 2008
    • 2735

    Just curious...

    Oh great HWSNBN,
    Just want to know, in the years you've been making and driving RC subs,
    - Have you ever lost a sub?
    - How did you recover it?
    - Did you find out what caused it to be lost?
    - Do you have a sub on eternal patrol?
    Make it simple, make strong, make it work!
  • RCSubGuy
    Welcome to my underwater realm!
    • Aug 2009
    • 1768

    #2
    I'm sure he'll chime in, but if you haven't had #1 through #3 happen to you, you ain't a real sub-driver (yet!).

    It's not a question of if, but when...

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    • He Who Shall Not Be Named
      Moderator
      • Aug 2008
      • 12256

      #3
      Originally posted by redboat219
      Oh great HWSNBN,
      Just want to know, in the years you've been making and driving RC subs,
      - Have you ever lost a sub?
      - How did you recover it?
      - Did you find out what caused it to be lost?
      - Do you have a sub on eternal patrol?
      Several. In the early days.

      I'm an uncertified diver who works nights when I need to.

      One entrapment, a ****ing shopping cart; one flooding casualty; and two because the boat went out trimmed slightly negative in submerged trim and I ran out of propellant.

      Yes. Shopping cart; one rolled O-ring; and failure to follow the mission check-list.

      No ****ing way! One recovery took a whole week of diving, but I found that sucker!

      Who is John Galt?

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      • Subculture
        Admiral
        • Feb 2009
        • 2119

        #4
        Had a sub stuck on the bottom of a pool once. It blew it's main fuse- I was playing with a new prop and it was bit too much for the motor. My trim was slightly negative, not a problem when under way, but once the fuse popped the boat gracefully sank to the bottom, and as it totally killed the power to both everything on-board I couldn't blow the tank.

        I got it back with a line and some weights on the end, as it was only a few grams negative, so didn't need to go for a swim. The lesson i learnt was to keep radio system and power system independently fused if possible- I like separate BEC's.

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        • redboat219
          Admiral
          • Dec 2008
          • 2735

          #5
          Too bad you don't have an underwater picture of the sub in the shopping cart. It would have been awesome sight.
          Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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          • MFR1964
            Detail Nut of the First Order
            • Sep 2010
            • 1290

            #6
            #1, Never lost a sub, but i had some failures in keeping underwater.
            #2, Recovery allways with resquebouye and attached line.
            #3, Cause of failure, too much of a big mouth to the crowd and not working by my checklist, i even forgot once to tighten the hatches.
            #4, Luckely no one on eternal patrol.

            Manfred.

            I went underground

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            • He Who Shall Not Be Named
              Moderator
              • Aug 2008
              • 12256

              #7
              Originally posted by redboat219
              Too bad you don't have an underwater picture of the sub in the shopping cart. It would have been awesome sight.
              Clarity was on a par with chocolate milk. No picture taking. All done by feel and probing the muck with my belly. Navy trained salvage-ship husbandry trained idiot.
              Who is John Galt?

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              • JHapprich
                Captain
                • Oct 2017
                • 715

                #8
                No model sunken, none lost. One sub had a leak that fused the engine just ashore AFTER the run.

                Jörg

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                • Subculture
                  Admiral
                  • Feb 2009
                  • 2119

                  #9
                  Originally posted by He Who Shall Not Be Named

                  Clarity was on a par with chocolate milk.
                  You sure it was chocolate?

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                  • He Who Shall Not Be Named
                    Moderator
                    • Aug 2008
                    • 12256

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Subculture

                    You sure it was chocolate?
                    Yuk! The worst I ever worked in was Naples harbor and Golcuk Turkey. The filth stratified like a layer cake! Once in and under the layer of **** and oil you had to kick hard to get back to the surface. After all that, a dip into a sewage treatment plant holding pond would be a day in the park. But, Mt Trashmore lake was rather muddy.

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