Re: Stus-List Dumb question, folks... water tank inspection ports

2017-02-12 Thread Josh Muckley via CnC-List
I use silicone dielectric grease to lubrcate and condition the o-ring seals. Still have all original inspection ports except the holding tank. The plastic weld/glue on the holding tank failed so I replaced it with a beckson port. No screws just plastic glue from TAP. They claim heating the

Re: Stus-List Dumb question, folks... water tank inspection ports

2017-02-12 Thread Ken Heaton via CnC-List
I'm going to have a good look at these for my tanks, new from Vetus this year: http://www.vetus.com/news/inspection-port-ilt.html Ken H. On 12 February 2017 at 09:07, Bruce Whitmore via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Our old C would occasionally leak out of the inspection port when

Stus-List Dumb question, folks... water tank inspection ports

2017-02-12 Thread Bruce Whitmore via CnC-List
Our old C would occasionally leak out of the inspection port when full and hard on the wind. I mostly fixed this with a good o-ring. Our newer boat has somewhat soft o- rings, but the prior owner had applied a bunch of silicone sealer presumably to stop leaks, which came apart when I removed