[PSUBS-MAILIST] O ring madness

[glen brown via Personal_Submersibles]

Thanks Brian.
Glen

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> I finally got my hatch back from the machine shop with the o ring groove
> put in it.   I had picked up the o ring a couple months earlier ( a 19"
> diameter o ring.  To my surprise the o ring was too big !  I figured
> someone simply grabbed the wrong size of the shelf .   Anyway , to make a
> long story short, after contacting Parker I learned I was not inserting the
> o ring correctly and that was why I had extra o ring at the end to pushing
> it in.  The correct way is to push in at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock and then
> at 3 and 9, and then keep doing that at 180 degrees until the o ring is
> in.    I'm sure a lot of you may know this already, but for those who
> don't  - some info on o rings !
>
> Brian
>
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