From: Pierre Tremblay via CnC-List
Date: 3/14/20 7:12 AM (GMT-05:00)
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Cc: Pierre Tremblay
Subject: Re: Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates
Just for reference, 1 drop per second is 1.14 us gallon per day.
Regards,
Pierre Tremblay
Avalanche #54988
C&
elsonWater Phantom1995 C&C 36XL/kcb
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From: bwhitmore via CnC-List
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Sent: Sat, Mar 14, 2020 8:38 am
Subject: Re: Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates
Hi Pierre,
I was interested in your comment and went to verify it, and found a huge
dispar
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Date: 3/14/20 7:12 AM (GMT-05:00) To: C&C List
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Re: Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates Just for reference, 1 drop per second is
1.14 us gallon per day.Regards,Pierre TremblayAvalanche #54988C&C38-3 WK, h
Just for reference, 1 drop per second is 1.14 us gallon per day.
Regards,
Pierre Tremblay
Avalanche #54988
C&C38-3 WK, hull #76
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Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates
My stuffing box leaks at the dock about one 'drop' per ~ 18 seconds.
For fire safety reasons, I never leave my bilge pump on when I am away from the
boat so this leak rate plus possible other leaks lets water accumulate in the
bilge.
What do the
I use a PYI system and have not had a water leakage at the shaft. The
water I get in the bilge is coming down the mast, because I mounted a
hard vang as low as possible to the cabin top. Mistake because found it
almost impossible to seal. However the seal I use does limit that
problem until
, March 13, 2020 3:47 PM
> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
> Cc: Bill Coleman
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates
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> Jeeze Charlie,
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> This really surprises me.If I thought I had forgotten to leave my
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Bill Coleman
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates
Jeeze Charlie,
This really surprises me.If I thought I had forgo
he PYI system for 23 years, and can’t imagine going back to a
> dripping seal . . .
>
> Bill Coleman
> Erie PA
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to a
dripping seal . . .
Bill Coleman
Erie PA
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Subject: Stus-List Stuffing box leak rates
My stuffing box
Hi Charlie,
I replaced ours with flax/teflon packing about 4 months ago. It does not drip
at all at the dock, and drips slightly underway. I can check the temperature
of the stuffing box itself underway both by putting my hand on it (though the
idea of having my hand near a spinning shaft does
My stuffing box leaks at the dock about one 'drop' per ~ 18 seconds.
For fire safety reasons, I never leave my bilge pump on when I am away from the
boat so this leak rate plus possible other leaks lets water accumulate in the
bilge.
What do the listers consider an acceptable leak rate when at
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