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Feb 26th, 2020, 09:37 | #11 |
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Thanks all..... Went for a dry crushable seal in the end which seems to have done the trick.
Reading more of your good stuff Ron as I seek to build on reliability. Jim |
Feb 26th, 2020, 12:20 | #12 |
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Followed Derek's earlier suggestion when refurbing my heater box and used a round file to cut a shallow groove at the splitline for the tube. Sealed the box with a black butyl flat tape which was way stickier than the grey putty tape, but it gave a nice even seal all around. Should be good for another fifty or so years.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129069...in/dateposted/ Cheers, Chris Last edited by csm22; Feb 26th, 2020 at 12:29. |
Mar 4th, 2021, 23:14 | #13 |
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I worked 40 years as a Property Master in the movie business, and I can tell you there is the world of difference between the grey stuff in the heater photos and black butyl. We used to use butyl for a myriad of things, quickly sticking prop licence plates over real ones or hanging a payphone on a painted concrete surface. It has a tremendous amount of elastic strength but can be easily pealed off while still pliable. Still pliable is key because once it "ages" as in baked on in the sun it is very difficult to separate to the pieces stuck together without deforming one or both, particularly thin aluminium licence plates. The grey stuff on the other hand has none of butyl's lateral strength and which we used until Fun-tak came along and should only be used on the heater because parts held together can readily be separated.
The same goes for bedding in the fuel tank! |
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