Shaking down, still
 

rOn Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:57:26 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Hi, all,

I see I've not been distinct :{))

"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:55:18 -0500, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Hi, Bruce, and onlookers,

Assuming everyone to have read the prior, I'll not repeat it here but
answer
the couple questions raised.

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I'm still confused :-) Is your problem a leak? Or the engine doesn't
run right? Or ???

The copper washers in banjo fittings was, sort of, the original seal
solution and the steel washers are a more modern solution. Older
maintenance instructions used to say to anneal the copper washers if
you rebuilt the device, which I always did (heat the copper washer red
hot and drop in a pot of water).


The engine runs great, but we still have a leak from whatever it is (not
part of the injector delivery parts). The paper washer, evidently, was just
to isolate the interior from the exterior on that joint, I think.

I don't know the innards of this pump to tell you exactly, but the analysis
of the guy is that it's got a thin O-ring which classically is the cause of
body leaks.

As to the washers, they were just a couple the guy I had come over after I
couldn't get it loose and didn't want to break anything; my steel washers
(proper part, from the same guy above), and even a banjo bolt and washers
from a 3-cylinder version of the same-part pump didn't do it - leading to
the copper. That fixed the pressurized mist, but not the drip-drip-drip
from the other.

When I built a roller furling system for the main sail I added a
"furling station" which was a SS "bracket" holding four cam cleats and
a small single speed winch which could be used on any of the various
lines. So the jib and main furling lines and the main sheet all ran to
one location with a winch so the diameter of the various lines was
immaterial as far as pulling on them went.

Sounds cool. However, everything I've read is that the general-sized genny
furlers should not be winched, or it's a sign of a problem if they do. In
fact, it wasn't until I did so (put it on a winch) that the sheath
separated. Other than extreme conditions, I hand the line in...

No, you are right. the roller furlers aren't designed to have some
astonishing amount of force imposed on them but the winch was sort of
nice to use as I used to get two or three turns on the "furling winch"
and I could then pull the sheet loose from the self tailing winch and
hold the tail of it in one hand and slack it off with one hand as I
wound in the furling winch with the other. Otherwise it was sort of
slack off the sheet a bit and then cleat it off and furl a little bit
and then slack off a bit more, etc.

The main sail roller furling was a different story though. It needed a
winch to get the foot of the sail tensioned correctly.

My boom has a single winch for the three reefing lines and the outhaul, too.
The other lines except for the mainsheet are run/led aft to two winches in
the cockpit

L8R

Skip, in rainy Vero Beach
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Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok