[C38] Dry Packing

[Tom T.]

I put GFO packing on my boat eight years ago and it's been wonderful. I have not had to readjust the packing nut since the initial break-in adjustment of the Gortex packing.

A dock neighbor of mine had the dripless type packing replacement on his boat and it seized causing the bellows to tear which almost ruined a cruise he was on.   They had to make emergency repairs to replace the damaged dripless packing.   I don't know how often this happens but I have to believe the original compression packing with the updated GFO Gortex packing material is the more robust solution of the two types.  The GFO packing is much cheaper and faster to install too.

Tom Troncalli
The Renata hull #95


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Larry Malmberg 
To: Catalina 38 Listserve
Sent: 6/5/2008 3:41:48 PM 
Subject: Re: [C38] Dry Packing


WOW, after reading the article sent to us by Steve maybe I made a good choice by trying new packing instead of a dripless bearing, here is the site for GFO
 
 
http://www.emarineinc.com/products/gfopacking/packing.html
 
 
We’ll see how good it is.



Best regards,

Larry Malmberg-Hassle
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