[Alberg30] RE: Public-list digest, Vol 1 #89 -dripless packing

[Hugh Freebairn]

Ross,

I was thinking to dive and stuff conduit putty around the shaft log to stop 
water from spurting in and then back the shaft log coupling nut off and 
clean it out while it is still on the shaft.  Then I would pack the new 
green stuff in it and screw it back on.  Do you think this will work?  Do 
you think the shaft log nut should be taken off of the shaft to clean the 
old stuff out?

Hugh


>From: "Horton, Ross G." <rhorton at pwcgov.org>
>Reply-To: public-list at alberg30.org
>To: "'public-list at alberg30.org'" <public-list at alberg30.org>
>Subject: [Alberg30] RE: Public-list digest, Vol 1 #89 -dripless packing
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:11:36 -0500
>
>Hugh:
>	I replaced the packing in the stuffing box with the dripless
>greenish Teflon clay material while the boat was out of the water.  It took
>two of us quite a while to remove the old packing and replace it with the
>new flax and dripless material so I would be hesitant to try it with the
>shaft log spurting water.  The spurting water would, however, be a real
>incentive to get on with the job.
>	By the way, I cut a small opening in my port cockpit locker so that
>someone in that locker can get a "decent" grip on the stuffing box.  Even
>with everything removed from the locker that space is not very large.  I 
>had
>a smaller friend get into the locker while I reached down through the
>inspection port in the cockpit sole.  I tried to get into the locker myself
>and wondered if anyone would see my legs sticking up before I died from the
>blood pooling in my head.  I figure that it would take a fireman with  a
>Hurst tool (the jaws of life) to extract my 6'2" middle-aged carcass from
>the locker.
>
>Ross Horton
>Delphi, #40
>
>Ross,
>
>Did you install the green stuffing box material with the boat in the water?
>
>Would it be possible to do so?  I have used the dripless mechanical shaft
>seals for over 7 years now on other boats besides my A30 and I have been
>very happy with them.  I had to have the boat out to install them and pull
>the shaft part way out of the engine coupling to get them on.
>
>Hugh Freebairn "Aliage"
>
>
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