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In a message dated 1/4/2004 7:30:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Thanks for the reply. My preference is to use something off the shelf if
possible but it looks like I better start thinking up a custom design as I
spent 3 hours searching the Internet last night and came up with nothing
suitable.
Perhaps I can find a fiberglass tank manufacturer that can sell me
something.
A few weeks ago I outlined a way to patch a tank by using an oval hole and
oval cover plates. There was a leaking fitting and the skipper wanted to seal
it. The tank was poly, almost impossible to glue to.
My suggestion was to cut an oval hole in the tank, removing the bad spot, and
then seal it using two oval plates, larger than the hole, with gaskets, held
together with a bolt sealed with an o-ring. The inside oval plate is inserted
sideways and pulled tight by the outside oval plate. You could do something
similar using two bolts and a threaded hole for a pipe fitting in the middle
of the plates.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying St Augustine
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