KBBS Archive 10,000

A venting question!

Posted By: mike allen
Date: Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 6:55 p.m.

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 -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 6:16 a.m.

Great!
mike allen -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 12:14 p.m.

Re: Great!
Kent LeBoutillier -- Friday, 19 November 1999, at 6:31 a.m.

Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
Dean Trexel -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 5:23 p.m.

Re: Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
mike allen -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 5:32 p.m.

Re: Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
Dean Trexel -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 8:35 p.m.

Query - Is there Soft Silicone?
mike allen -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 12:49 p.m.

You just had to ask!
Shawn Baker -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 4:02 p.m.

Re: Silicone hatch seals vs. gasketing?
Kent LeBoutillier -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 7:01 a.m.

An idea for silicone hatch seals
Dean Trexel -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 5:34 p.m.

Lipped Silicone Seal
mike allen -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 6:14 p.m.

A Snap Tight Lipped Silicone Seal
mike allen -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 8:31 p.m.

Re: A Snap Tight Lipped Silicone Seal
Robert Woodard -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 5:41 p.m.

A venting question!
mike allen -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 6:55 p.m.

and especially
mike allen -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 7:19 p.m.

Um, Actually, No
Paul G. Jacobson -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 8:16 p.m.

Re: Silicone hatch seals
Don Beale -- Wednesday, 17 November 1999, at 6:01 p.m.

Re: Silicone hatch seals
Kent LeBoutillier -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 6:47 a.m.

Re: Silicone hatch seals
lee -- Thursday, 18 November 1999, at 8:23 a.m.

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