Sunday, July 22, 2012

Re: [Electric Boats] Finally had to do some real maintenance!

 

Mike Nice report and pics

do you use packing in the stuffing box or seals?

I found the silicon rubber seals worked a treat in my hydro and stood up to high shaft rpm (7200) well

Andrew Gilchrist


On 22/07/2012 11:58 PM, Mike wrote:
 
Well, five years after the install I finally had to do some real maintenance on my Thoosa 9000 system beyond the annual oil change of the Honda 2000 generator. Like everything else my propulsion system I found working on it was so much easier than almost anything I had to do to maintain the old diesel engine. In this case it was replacing the shaft coupling:

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Capt. Mike



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