At my yard they use Sika 291, but I guess the 3M 5200 that CJ mentioned is just as good. AFAIK, the main reason for sealing the bolt isn't to...
Sorry MYlover, for some reason I previously missed this post of yours. Just to answer your question, yep, Italian is indeed my mother language....
Guilty conscience, leeky? Why do you read my comment as a denigration? Jealousy is another fact of life - at least as much as luck, if not more....
Well, luck/randomness is indeed a fact of life. According to many researcher, it's the most relevant single factor behind the fact that some...
In other words, the old "ends justify the means" principle. Are you a Macchiavelli fan, possibly? :D
As well as I said that you seemed to associate my comments to those articles. :)
Thanks CR, I must have missed that thread altogether. A lip seal it definitely is. In the OP boots I'd want to have both the seal and the shaft...
Thanks for your appreciation of my reasoning, regardless of if and to which extent you agree. I'm leaving the rest of your post out of my quote...
CR, do you mean because they are actually face seals, which by definition can't be fitted with a spare, or are they lip seals but for some reason...
No, I didn't express that. If you re-read my previous post, what I said is rather that the concept of productivity is debatable. The world moved...
In principle, overheating can damage all dripless seals, potentially to the point of needing to replace/refurbish them. But among the two broad...
VERY far from trying to be contentious either, but... Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, to name but a few in the top ranking of ultra HNWI,...
I wasn't aware of such polls, but I'm not surprised in the least by the results, for two very simple reasons: First, on paper socialism is a much...
Mmm... Speed up through that strait rather than waste just two or three minutes and go round the islet in open waters, where they could go as fast...
Liam, I don't think it would be a big deal to keep a boat like that on a straight course at anything above 5 or 6 knots, regardless of propulsion,...
I meant to ask before, but I forgot: Are you possibly referring to eSysman, who pretends in a recent YT video to have identified this channel as...
Fairenuff. I fully agree that, generally speaking, the web is nowadays the most efficient fact-distortion machine. Still, the observation that the...
If you say it's normal for the captain of this boat to fiddle with AIS signal, I take your word for it. But I hope you're not implying your...
What you are now telling is a fact in itself. Would you expect such behavior from a normal AIS signal? You are right on one thing, though: what I...
Well, what do you make of the fact that the captain turned the AIS transponder off shortly after the video became viral? BTW, the boat had moved...
