Hi, again...


Date: Wed, May 17 2006 2:03 am
From: Peggie Hall

Skip Gundlach wrote:
I'm not sure of damage - it seemed like it just made it easier to work
with in a somewhat cramped area.

You may not be for a while...it can takes weeks or months for material
that's stretch too thin to finally part company.

Inline radius fittings would actually have made the job even easier in
cramped quarters...'cuz you don't have to wrestle the hose around a
corner. Instead, you put a hose connector on each end of the hose, put a
little PVC cement on the ends the radius...hold it in place while you
just put the ends together.

This being pvc hose, are you saying there are connectors to sweeps or
ells which I can simply glue up? If so, you're quite right about that
making it easier! (more below)


The particular place was at the part of the current gallery beginning
at
http://www.justpickone.org/skip/gall...ay06&start=155

I also cut a section to go over the hose where it bore against the
grease plug for the valve under it (intake valve, one on the through
hull as well), to prevent against chafe. Would you mind looking at
that and saying whether you think that radius is too tight?

It looks ok from what I could see.

In this particular application it would have also avoided contact with
the grease plug. Can you point me to a source for these fittings?
I've got plenty of hose left over to do this section again.

And, for what it's worth, the other end is now finished. A great deal
of consideration on the end result, and then a great deal of wrestling,
including removing, resizing and resetting the brace, with the PVC
already installed making me work around it, to make the Y and pipe line
up perfectly. Easily breakable at the Y should we ever have to service
it for some reason, and very secure. Gave me ideas and encouragement
for the aft head.

Any interested in that part of it can do the same url above but start
at 342 as the last number in the URL to see the end result.

(thus my interest in AVS/Shields 101, you'll recall - and what was the
outcome of Aussiglobe?)...

It's gone. The best hose on the market now is Trident (which I think you
meant, not Shields) 101/102. In fact, it may even be better than AVS96,
'cuz it has a biocide in the rubber compound.

OY! You're quite right. I need to go back to the places I've been
talking about it and correct. The stuff I took out of the boat was the
shields 148, which everyone thinks because it's in West and more than
some other hoses it's ok. 101 would be *awful*!!

Thanks, yet again, for your knowledgeable assistance.
--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304



L8R

Skip

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