Re: flotation for P-15

Robert Skinner (robert@140.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:27:55 -0400


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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How about a couple of truck inner tubes, blown up after they are in
place?

They would not be too expensive, they are not going to absorb water
under any circumstances, failures would be easy to spot, they will
stay in place by themselves, and they are easy to remove if you need
to do some more work back there.

There are extender hoses for the valve stems, so you can bring the
valves out where they are easy to reach. Beware of over-inflation.
An inner tube in a confined space is capable of exerting a lot of
force. That's what they were designed for...

Has anyone already tried this? Absent advice to the contrary, I
intend to use this method the next time I have to work on the stern
from the inside.

/Robert Skinner, Rockville, MD 20850
'87 Potter 15 HMS #1618 "Little Dipper"
robert@140.com

Sukoshi1044@aol.com wrote: [abbreviated]
>I had to remove the foam flotation that was under the cockpit seats... Has anyone else replaced this flotation and what did you use?
> Bill de Ment P-15 #1044 'Sukoshi'
> Eagle, Idaho