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rhys
 
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Default Hi-tech stuffing box material

On 8 Apr 2006 06:02:15 -0700, "Keith"
wrote:

Five years using now.... after initial tightening, only had to adjust
once.... last year. Tightened maybe 1/8 turn. Great stuff!


It's some kind of fibre impregnated with Teflon for me. I have the
original bronze stuffing box, and I inspected it just before launch as
I had a folding prop put on and I was concerned about torque.

The stuff looks like the day it went it. I still have a foot left in a
locker somewhere.

R.