Dave:

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For most of us it’s a no brainer that if you take them all out for cleaning and as my boatyard suggested, bead blasting, you need to make sure that each tapered insert is identified with its location. I labeled each and every one of them with masking tape as I took them out, but when the yard did the bead blasting job, the tape got removed from a few of the inserts in the process and two of the same size seacock inserts must have got mixed up. I did use some of the Spartan lapping compound to try to bed them in properly, but the location was not easy to get to and it resulted in a slow drip from one of them, unless the nut was tightened to the point where it was difficult to turn the handle and only identifiable after the boat went back in the water of course! I was not real happy, but luckily the dripping eventually stopped and they all now work well. IMHO I think they are awesome seacocks,?

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Pete Waterson
“颁丑补谤诲辞苍苍补测”
S38-2
Oriental, NC

Sorry, my reply ended up here instead of being part of Dave’s thread. Thick fingers on a small keyboard!

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Pete Waterson
“颁丑补谤诲辞苍苍补测”
S38-2
Oriental, NC