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Years ago I ran out of picture hanging putty to seal off the wires from my electronics bay. A buddy of mine gave me some stuff he called Gorilla Snot. It was softer, stuck better and filled the hole better then the picture hanging putty did. What he gave me lasted a couple of seasons be for I was out of it. I then went back to the putty. It never really stuck all the well and I could not fill the hole very well either. A couple weeks ago I finally found out what the stuff really was.

And they carry it at Home Depot ....about $3 for a pound of it.




Tony

tfish said:

nd they carry it at Home Depot ....about $3 for a pound of it.

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Good tip, which section is it in? (somewhere around AC or ducting supplies I assume?)

Nytrunner said:

Good tip, which section is it in? (somewhere around AC or ducting supplies I assume?)

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If you look it up on their website, it will tell you how many they have, and the aisle and bay it is in.

Thanks Tony.

This is timely as I am working on a bay that is just too tight to allow for my usual terminal blocks. By this method you just drill a small hole, run the ematch wires directly through, then temporarily seal with this stuff, correct? Any other non-obvious tips to this method?

Thanks.

Cl(VII) said:

This is timely as I am working on a bay that is just too tight to allow for my usual terminal blocks. By this method you just drill a small hole, run the ematch wires directly through, then temporarily seal with this stuff, correct? Any other non-obvious tips to this method?

Thanks.

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yep...I do 'counter' sink the hole on the outside (where the wires exit the ebay) to aid in getting some 'Gorilla Dung" (I see I called it snot above..But I think he called it Dung) in the hole, around the wires. A zip tie or a knot in the ematch wires..to take any strain off the actual ematch to altimeter connection.

In my mind the fewer connection points terminal blocks etc there are the fewer failure points.

Tony

tfish said:

yep...I do 'counter' sink the hole on the outside (where the wires exit the ebay) to aid in getting some 'Gorilla Dung" (I see I called it snot above..But I think he called it Dung) in the hole, around the wires. A zip tie or a knot in the ematch wires..to take any strain off the actual ematch to altimeter connection.

In my mind the fewer connection points terminal blocks etc there are the fewer failure points.

Tony

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I wondered about how you ensure there is no tug on the altimeter if the ematch gets tangled in the exiting recovery harness. A knot is a very simple solution to that.

Thanks again.

Ductseal is generally available in the electrical section of the hardware store. It is generally used to seal the ends of conduit, either around the wire or just to close off an empty conduit. This is to keep gasses, fluids, etc from migrating through the conduit. Pretty good at keeping critters out too. I was assigned a sewage lift station some years ago as one of the many sites that I checked and maintained. This station had submersible pumps (real big grinders, 150 hp as I recall) in the wet well, with a set of large cabinet enclosures up on the ground. The cabinets had all of the electronics in them. The cabinets were of course connected to the wet well with conduit to run the large amounts of wiring. Some time before I got that job, some one had pulled one of the pumps and had left all of the conduit open, no ductseal. By the time I got the station, lots of sewer gas had entered the cabinet and corroded out most of the electronics. It took about $30K and about 40 man hours to correct the situation and replace the electronics to the point that we could install and operate another pump. Ductseal's day job is real important.

Jim