[TheForge] grizzly high precision tool room metal lathe

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Terry:
A ROV that will function at 6000 feet is a hell of an ambitious thing to 
build!  Even service on them is sure to be awfully specialized.
Under that much pressure everything has to be absolutely flawless.
That's the sort of thing best bought from the folks who give their lives 
to that as a  specialty.
May i respectfully inquire if you have ever done this sort of thing before?
The prospect of an inexperienced crew wrestling with a heavy ROV hanging 
on the end of cables on a rolling, pitching deck is frightening. And 
that's the least of it.
What can you recover from that depth that would possibly pay for the 
endeavor? Penetrating a warship is difficult enough on the surface.
It's a wonderful, romantic vision, but no business to walk into cold and 
try to learn on the job.
I sorta want to go though..does a mental handicap qualify me?..pf

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello mike;
> 
> i am still waiting on my passport renewal.
> i also am waiting on all the medical paperwork i need to take my
> morphine and other class iv narcotics across the border and back into
> the usa again. :-(
> 
> that has been suggested by several crew members, just buy a machine shop
> that is being auctioned off. make it a captive machine shop that
> provides services strictly for the vessels. i am not sure that we would
> be able to keep a machine shop and the machinists engaged enough just
> doing work for ourselves. i tend to doubt that we would be able to keep
> a machine shop and the machinists gainfully engaged every business day
> for 8 hrs per day. i do not want to run a machine shop long distance.
> there is also the whole point that a complete machine shop in windsor
> ontario canada does not do a whole lot of good if we are in the south
> pacific and need some repair work. that being said, i would still feel
> somewhat guilt for gutting a machine shop of the tools.
> 
> it has also been suggested that we perhaps should be building our own
> rovs instead of renting/leasing them. i am still mulling this over.
> i keep reminding myself that our purpose if search and recovery and not
> building every rov that we may possible need.
> 
> i have no doubt that there are enough smart and inventive people on
> theforge e-mail list that if given the time and money could produce a
> functional rov that would be able to be certified to 2000 meters. the
> question of course is just how much time and money.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>>> There are some really nice tools available, if you aren't in a hurry
>>> and have enough experience to wait for a good one.
>> I dunno if it's the same all over but, based on reading the Saturday
>> ed. of Toronto Globe & Mail, there seems to be one or more shops going
>> up for auction nearly every week in the Toronto metro area -- machine
>> shops or shops that use machine tools such a tool and die makers,
>> industrial maintainance and the like.  So TO might be a good place to
>> watch for what you want.
>>
>> (No knowledge or opinion on marque or model.)
>>
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>>
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