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From: DSE (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 15:46:24 EDT
At 08:53 AM 8/19/99 -0500, Jim Isbell wrote:
>I still havent heard what kind they are so I will just offer what I have.
>
>On my boat they are bronze gate valves, the worst kind. The engine intake
>was frozen open and after trying several oils on the shaft to no avail I
<snip>
Jim,
Sorry for the tardiness. My seacocks aren't ball-type, that
I'm sure of. The boat (`74 Chris Craft Caribbean Motorsailor)
I think was too old for that technology <g>. They're the
large bronze variety, meaning cone or gate valving, I guess.
I've sprayed some of the Power Blaster auto stuff on three of
them as an experiment. Btw, this stuff stinks bad enough to
scare them into submission (I hope).
Will be posting a summary of the responses in a day or so and
(hopefully) positive results.
Thanks,
David
"...there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half
so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats...."
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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