1/3/2024 0 Comments Rc submarine mines![]() ![]() Keeping The Water OutĮssential to the submarine - and contradictory to its nature - is to keep all interiors of the electrical/mechanical compartments dry. I designed and built the entire operating system. I thus attempted to build part-for-part a five foot radio-controlled Russian Alfa class submarine. I succeeded with that model building endeavor and decided to take on a larger, more ambitious sub building project. I built a 22 inch long model R/C sub sold by a company in Germany and I was very intrigued by the nature of a radio-controlled submarine. My motivating inspiration was to utilize an on-board air compressor to fill a pressure tank to expel air to blow ballast. ![]() I didn’t know at that time, but I was going to stretch my creative model building brain cells to their maximum. The construction and design of the operating system were to come from some general ideas mostly from my imagination and some well thought out common sense engineering. Thus would begin a 10 year electro-mechanical nautical engineering project. ![]() I didn’t know very much (in fact, I knew almost nothing) about air pressure control, compressed air holding tanks, manometers, Mapp gas, silver soldering copper, casting in urethane, casting tin bismuth in a silicon rubber mold at temperature, making complex silicon rubber molds or making prototypes of cardboard and wood before committing to metal fabrication anodizing, using potting compounds, making various tools to make parts, the importance of wire gauge and of amperage, and many other issues regarding this build. Though not an engineer - but with some experience in the Army Engineer Corps as a heavy equipment repairman - I eventually evolved as one, with this submarine project as a measure of my skills. I would learn and deal with devices and concepts unknown to me at the time of initial commitment, and this developing knowledge would make my Alfa submarine project a reality. BackgroundĪt the time I considered this project, I was working for the Disney Company as a model builder for the movies “Con-Air” and “Deep Rising.” I was hopeful that my project might succeed with a little help from the Disney model building geniuses. If you have a robotics project or an all-terrain vehicle or boat, follow along as I have some great building secrets to share with you, too. If building a submarine interests you, I have here a great project that will give you some good ideas and many techniques to learn. We must confront that truth when building new complex projects. There are always certain aspects of a project that you don’t know what you don’t know. If you are at that same threshold, this article is for you. I like building things within my budget and beyond my imagination. ![]()
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