[C320-list] My leak stop kit...

[Kaare Wold]

Jeff, your kit is a brilliant and inexpensive idea. We want you on Sheet Music if we start to sink.
Kaare & Mary Wold #945.

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> On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Jeff Hare <Catalina at thehares.com> wrote:
> 
> So, here's an inexpensive tip for plugging a hole in an emergency.  
> 
> Go to your home center and get 2 or 3 toilet Wax Rings.  Put them in a large
> Ziploc bag and warm them to room temp or slightly above.  Squeeze them all
> into a big ball.   Then squeeze all the air out of the Ziploc bag, roll it
> up tight.    Now, next time you have a problem with a big leak, open the
> Ziploc bag, turn it upside down over the hole and press/knead the wax into
> the leak.  It should stop, just like that, and probably stay stopped.  
> 
> If there's still some of the thru-hull left, drape the Ziploc over the
> thru-hull and zip-tie it to help hold the wax it in place (may not even need
> to).  Also keeping a few 4" wide strips of old bed sheets can give you
> something to wrap around the wax it and tie off.  Like a big sticky
> Band-Aid.  
> 
> Put the bedsheet strips in a large Ziploc with a handful of zip ties, a roll
> of Rescue Tape, a box cutter and the other sealed Ziploc containing the wax
> ball and you have a nice portable leak stopping kit.  The Wax is pliable,
> waterproof, sticky and should easily fill oddly shaped leaking areas.  The
> rescue tape will work when you have some hose that burst or is leaking, and
> the zip ties can be used to hold it in place or joined together for wrapping
> around something larger 
> 
> That's my tip of the day.  :)    Hope I never really have to use it however,
> but I made a couple of these back when I was more paranoid.  The wooden plug
> thing doesn't seem appropriate to me for plastic thru-hulls.
> 
> -Jeff Hare
> #809
>