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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] through-hulls



The hydraulic positioner sounds like a good idea. Just keep in mind almost all slave cylinders are designed to hold internal pressure only. You will probably need to create an external seal on the slaves to assure that the water does not infiltrate your system.
 
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Jim K.
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] through-hulls

Joe. As I remember, the two way master cylinder ( which would be inside the hull) looked like it had a piston moved either right or left in a tube, and the hydraulic lines on either end of the tube went directly to the positioner ( in our case, outside the hull) and there was no pump.
As far as adapting it for a wet application, it seems to me that the addition of a hydraulic oil reservoir, pressurized to just over ambient, would be enough to keep the water out of the positioner.
You might leak a little oil into the water but clean hydraulic oil isn't a pollutant, and any leakage would be minimal.
As I was e-mailing Vance, I saw this in an old catalogue I had, and I will do a google search to see what I can find. Frank D.