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A venting question!
By:mike allen
Date: 11/18/1999, 6:55 pm
In Response To: Re: A Snap Tight Lipped Silicone Seal (Robert Woodard)

> Be careful about creating an airtight seal. As your yak heats up the air
> can cause great presure to build up inside. If you use bungie to hold the
> covers on, the air can probably push it enough to vent, but when it starts
> to cool you have the opposite problem (large vacuum).

> Some commercial manufactures have started putting a pin hole in their
> bulkheads to prevent VCP hatches from popping off or collapsing inward.

> Woody

It has to be airtight in order to use the huge weightless foot pump idea!!!!!

(I would vent it of course w/ up and down tubes thru the bulkhead)

-mick

Messages In This Thread

Silicone hatch seals
Kent LeBoutillier -- 11/17/1999, 6:16 am
Re: Silicone hatch seals
Don Beale -- 11/17/1999, 6:01 pm
Re: Silicone hatch seals
lee -- 11/18/1999, 8:23 am
Re: Silicone hatch seals
Kent LeBoutillier -- 11/18/1999, 6:47 am
An idea for silicone hatch seals
Dean Trexel -- 11/17/1999, 5:34 pm
Lipped Silicone Seal
mike allen -- 11/17/1999, 6:14 pm
A Snap Tight Lipped Silicone Seal
mike allen -- 11/17/1999, 8:31 pm
Re: A Snap Tight Lipped Silicone Seal
Robert Woodard -- 11/18/1999, 5:41 pm
A venting question!
mike allen -- 11/18/1999, 6:55 pm
Um, Actually, No
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/18/1999, 8:16 pm
and especially
mike allen -- 11/18/1999, 7:19 pm
Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
Dean Trexel -- 11/17/1999, 5:23 pm
Re: Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
Kent LeBoutillier -- 11/18/1999, 7:01 am
Re: Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
mike allen -- 11/17/1999, 5:32 pm
Re: Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
Dean Trexel -- 11/17/1999, 8:35 pm
Query - Is there Soft Silicone?
mike allen -- 11/18/1999, 12:49 pm
You just had to ask!
Shawn Baker -- 11/18/1999, 4:02 pm
Great!
mike allen -- 11/17/1999, 12:14 pm
Re: Great!
Kent LeBoutillier -- 11/19/1999, 6:31 am