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Ericson33
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Initially Posted - 04/24/2006 :  14:01:48  Show Profile  Visit Ericson33's Homepage
Yesterday I spent the day up at the club repairing our hydrohost, Its up on a trailer on the hard and I have removed the back bands that hold it together, all went well with the repair, I ground around where the tubes set and re-glassed the area with 6 layers of 6oz. cloth. I had a small leak in the port rear tube, and in the front Starboard Tube. So I am walking around the hoist and notice that where the tubes come out to the hoses that there is rust present, So like anybody else I take my screwdriver and loosen the clamp to take the hose off and inspect the fitting, I pulled once on it and to my surprize it broke off flush with the tank, *&^%(^(*&^% I was thinking to myself, So now I have to repair this 3/4 pipe fitting that attaches the glass tube to the rubber hose, My problem lies in the fact that the fitting is broken flush with the fiberglass tube. I gave Hydrohoist a call this AM and the repair guy told me to use a hacksaw blade held by a visegrip and cut it down the middle of the tube then use a chisle to remove the threaded pipe. He told me that the part is a standard pipe fitting, and I can pick one up at any hardware store. A member also stopped by and told me to just use an easyout, I think the secoind method would be easier but I dont know if I could get enough thread on the pipe. My fix would to get an old socket and epoxy it into the tube then grab the ratchet and back her out. What do you guys suggest?

Problem #2 is that while the first fitting looked realy bad the others seemed to be in good shape, But guess what??? The port rear tank Air fitting was really loose and I am guseesing that the air was escaping where these pipe fittings are "ARGGGGGGGGG", so now that I have spent 3 days at the lake, getting the hoist out on a trailer, A Day of cleaning both tubes so I could glass, and yesterday spending the day fiberglassing the tubes, I find that my problem could have been fixed at the dock with some Pipe Dope and 30 min. of time.

I am learning so much from these stupid little mistakes

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C.S. McKillip
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