[Land-speed] Home?

[Ed Van Scoy]

Wish I had some of this stuff when my fan went throughthe radiator on a down
record run......... Looks like it works betterthan JB Weld.
Ed


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Weldon [mailto:23.weldon at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 12:27 PM
To: land-speed at autox.team.net, 'Skip Higginbotham'
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Home?

Sure, Skip. Just a bit preoccupied with Jon Amo's forums at the moment.Hey,
here's something good for you guys that haven't discovered it orsomething
similar. A water/humidity curing preimpregnated resin/fiberglastape. Made by a
local outfit here in San Jose. Neat stuff to have handy inthe trailer.
Available from Lowes around $10 last time I
looked.http://www.durapower.com/http://www.durapower.com/Pipe%20&%20Hose.htmh
ttp://www.durapower.com/patch_kit.htmhttp://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pr
oductDetail&productId=16462-72798-FST260So here's my story--I've got this 5000
gallon water tank for my well with a christmas tree ofvalves at the bottom
outlet. Last week I'm doing a "light" repair and gota bit heavy handed with a
pipe wrench. Bad scene. Cracked steel 1-1/4"pipe nipple right where it goes
into a big reducer at the tank wall insidethe first valve. Full tank with 10ft
head pressure and a nice 1 gpm sprayfountain from the break. So I head off to
the not so local hardware store(Orchard Supply in San Jose) hoping to find a
solution. And find it I did.DuraPower Pipe and Hose repair kit. Cost $18 and
change there; pricey but atthat point I was ready to pay a lot more. Inside
the box were a sealedplastic bag, a pair of "medium" latex gloves that didn't
fit me and somedirections. Cut open the sealed bag and found a flat roll of 2"
wide x 60"long sticky resin impregnated fiberglass tape (reason for the
gloves) thatwould cure once it exposed to air (which always contains some
humidity).Instructions said that if you put it in water first it would cure a
lotfaster, like 30-40 minutes.I dug out around the pipe so I could wrap it
without getting too much dirtsticking to it and pulled tight with each wrap
per the instruction until thewhole 60 inches was wrapped on. The crack was in
the corner where the pipethread entered the larger cast iron reducing bushing.
Not exactly an idealsituation. A conventional pipe repair clamp wouldn't work
and the waterpressure would fight any ordinary tape, gasket goop or
epoxy.Well, it worked like a charm. No more leak. After a few minutes the
curingand swelling of the resin became visible. And no leaks visible since.
Andno, I'm not sure what the temperature limits might be. Need to
contactDuraPower.Any of you guys have experience with this go tell the story
over on theLandracing.com forum for folks who stay over there.Ed Weldon-----