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Air compressor for hull cleaning
Hello:
Okay, I appologize for that my sarcastic remarks earlier. However, after a long run I am much more relaxed. For the "I wanat to go diving" folks who were asking for air supply advice. But for real try this........................ Oregon State University DIve Ops guy, Jim Washburn used an old USN hand operated diver air supply pump to guide a new lilght weight v3resion for shallow water applications. I am not talking about the big two person pump designed put a Mark V down, rather somthing much smaller. The shallow water pump weighs about 25 pounds and is pumped by one person. The diver uses a "special" low preasure demand stage for the regulator. The pump is prettey cool. Stone age technology. Maybe four moving parts. And the beauty is that only one person is needed topside to work the pump. Where do you get one?? Jim was cosidering manufaturing and sell the pumps. But because of libility issues decided to shelve the idea. However.......... if you are interested call Oregon State University and ask for Jim Washburn, College of Oceaneering. I have a set of plans but Jim is there to do just that. Help the tax payers benfit from tax paid research projects. Two bighest problems with this set up: 1) limited to about 20' depth 2) need a person topside to operate the manual hand pump. The advatges: 1) No fuel,oil,noise 2) Stone age relibility, simplicity, light, CHEEP Helpful Bob. |
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