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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/4/2011, 12:29 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak (Stephen Troy)

: Thanks for the offer. I'll give it a shot here first and see if I
: can't find it. I believe there's a compressor over at the shop.

The trick is sealing the coaming. I'd suspect that you can work on a gasket of some sort and a piece of plywood or two to seal the hole in the skirt to allow you to get enough air pressure to work, don't need much.

Bill H.

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Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Stephen Troy -- 6/30/2011, 2:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
StephenHJ -- 6/30/2011, 5:12 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Jeff Horton -- 7/1/2011, 8:16 am
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Scott Shurlow -- 7/1/2011, 9:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Stephen Troy -- 7/1/2011, 10:27 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Jeff Horton -- 7/1/2011, 2:51 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Stephen Troy -- 7/1/2011, 5:36 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Noel Bennett -- 7/1/2011, 10:22 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2011, 2:09 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Stephen Troy -- 7/2/2011, 4:32 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2011, 12:51 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Stephen Troy -- 7/3/2011, 4:20 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Bill Hamm -- 7/4/2011, 12:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/5/2011, 3:19 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Stephen Troy -- 7/5/2011, 10:16 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
David Bynoe -- 7/1/2011, 11:13 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Tony Ling -- 7/1/2011, 6:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Locating/repairing leak
Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2011, 2:13 am